Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Preparation

• Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Learning, Adversity

• Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Fear, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.181, Harvard University Press

• So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Preparation, Routine

• Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Preparation, Way

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 55), March 6, 1995.

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