Quotes & Sayings About Success Emerson

A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

That you are fair or wise is vain,
Or strong, or rich, or generous;
You must have also the untaught strain
That sheds beauty on the rose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be an opener of doors — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of success in education is respecting the students. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All great successes are the triumph of persistence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. Warren Buffet — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction. — Bessie Anderson Stanley

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy one kind with an other kind. Friendship buys friendship; justice, justice; military merit, military success...Yet there is commonly a confusion of expectations on these points. Hotspur lives for the moment, praises himself for it, and despises Furlong, that he does not. Hotspur of course is poor, and Furlong is a good provider. The odd circumstance is that Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-trust is the first secret of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. RALPH WALDO EMERSON — Jack Canfield

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;
and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is that which can do without success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people. — Ralph Waldo Emerson