Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Encouragement

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  The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Hope

• Our strength grows out of our weakness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Strength, Encouragement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

• Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Karma, Encouragement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.151, Harvard University Press

• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Good Life, Learning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2366, Delphi Classics

• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Courage

• If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Integrity, Niece

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.80, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

• Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Money, Remember

  1870 Society and Solitude,'Works and Days'.

• When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Sad, Encouragement

• You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Exercise, Stronger

• Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Past, People

• Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Practice, Perfect

• Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Nature, Errors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

• There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Encouragement, Destiny

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.621, Library of America

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