Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

#Future, #Life, #Living

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

#Generosity, #Progress, #Teachers And Teaching

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity

#Generosity

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

#Gifts

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

#Giving

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It...

#Gifts, #Giving, #Pain

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we...

#Glory

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not...

#Goodbye

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

#Goodness, #Wisdom

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

#Beauty, #Grace

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

#Graduation, #Inspirational

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

#Growth