Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Understanding Quotes

Do your work, but do your thing.

Do your work, but do your thing.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too...

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too...

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is...

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is...

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it...

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it...

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform...

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform...

Flowers are the earth laughing.

Flowers are the earth laughing.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat...

The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat...

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them...

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them...

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Hitch your wagon to a star.