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

America is another name for opportunity

America is another name for opportunity

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it...

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it...

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be...

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be...

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path...

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path...

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over...

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over...

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

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

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will...

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will...

We change, whether we like it or not

We change, whether we like it or not

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix