Leave your mark

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

/phil

You are unique

Insist on yourself; never imitate… Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

/phil

Trust yourself

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

/phil

Friendship

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

/phil

Push vs. Pull

Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

/phil

Destiny vs. Decision

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

/phil

Ambition and work

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

/phil

Be done with it

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could, some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encoumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

/phil

On Friendship

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

/phil

Each time you’re wrong you learn something new

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I’m persecuted when I’m contradicted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

/robin