Growth
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
From “Self-Reliance” (1841)
Always do what you are afraid to do.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
All quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson →
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.
The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.