Ralph Waldo Emerson One Quotations

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

Who loses a day loses life.