To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Life Quotes

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

We are wiser than we know.

We are wiser than we know.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they...

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they...

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

We change, whether we like it or not.

We change, whether we like it or not.

The ancestor of every action is a thought

The ancestor of every action is a thought

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Skill to do comes of doing

Skill to do comes of doing

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some...

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some...

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to...

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to...

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious...

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious...

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty

She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a...

She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a...