9 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Success

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on success

47. I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

60. Success treads on every right step. For the instinct is sure, that prompts him to tell his brother what he thinks. He then learns, that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds. He learns that he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent of all men whose language he speaks, and of all into whose language his own can be translated.

134. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

156. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

202. Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect.

253. Hitch your wagon to a star.

264. This world belongs to the energetic.

309. To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

311. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.