Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher who was born on May 25, 1803, in Boston, Massachusetts.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth laughs in flowers.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be great is to be misunderstood.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson