Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Women
  • Best
  • Path

• You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Want
  • Win
  • Games

• A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Healing
  • Medical

• I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Desire

• The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • World
  • Experience
  • Future

• When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Conformity

• You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Love
  • Enemy
  • Enough

• A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Law
  • Horse
  • Lawyer

• If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.

  

  Dan Webster
  • May
  • Want
  • Door

• At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • School
  • Me

• I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Statistics

• I think I made this decision that I just loved making music, and it didn't matter what level I got to do it on, and 'Fight Song' was this declaration that I'm going to keep going, and I'm going to keep believing in myself, even if it seems like it's impossible.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Song
  • Myself

• I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Future
  • Like
  • Wonder

• Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Children
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind infects me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • College
  • English

• If...it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Opinion
  • Grief

• Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • God
  • Clouds
  • Veils

• High reputation beats high similarity.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • High

• My daughter will find some of the sweetest words to tell you that can make a grown man cry. She still gives me the same inspiration. She still motivates me.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Words
  • Inspiration
  • Daughter

• I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Always
  • Natural
  • Very

• You need to understand the receiver and the offense you're facing that week. Know his tendencies and what routes he runs out of what formations. This will help you understand the concepts of what the receiver is going to give you on a given play, and make you that much better defending him.

  

  Antonio Cromartie
  • Offense
  • Defending
  • Facing

• And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson