E Quotes

White Eagle

Happiness is the realization of God in the heart.
Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving,
of faith, of acceptance;
a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God.
~White Eagle~

The Eagles

So often time it happens,
we all live our life in chains,
and we never even know we have the key.
~The Eagles~

Clint Eastwood

Respect your efforts,
respect yourself.
Self-respect leads to self-discipline.
When you have both firmly under your belt,
that's real power.
~Clint Eastwood~

Allan W. Eckert

If you would be a writer,
first be a reader.
Only through the assimilation of ideas,
thoughts and philosophies
can one begin to focus his own ideas,
thoughts and philosophies.
~Allan W. Eckert~

Meister Eckhart

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
~Meister Eckhart~

Pierce Vincent Eckhart

When I was a Boy Scout,
we played a game
when new Scouts joined the troop.
We lined up chairs in a pattern,
creating an obstacle course
through which the new Scouts,
blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver.
The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments
to study the pattern before
our adventure began. But as soon as
the victims were blindfolded,
the rest of us quietly
removed the chairs.
I think life is like this game.
Perhaps we spend our lives
avoiding obstacles we have
created for ourselves and
in reality exist only in our minds.
We're afraid to apply for that job,
take violin lessons,
learn a foreign language,
call an old friend,
write our Congressman --
whatever it is that we would
really like to do but don't because
of personal obstacles.
Don't avoid any chairs until
you run smack into one.
And if you do,
at least you'll have
a place to sit down.
~Pierce Vincent Eckhart~

Sherwood Eddy

Faith is not trying to believe something
regardless of the evidence.
Faith is daring to do something
regardless of the consequences.
~Sherwood Eddy~

Marian Wright Edelman

We must serve consciously as caring role models,
emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
~Marian Wright Edelman~

Thomas A. Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls
and looks like work.
~Thomas A. Edison~

I have not failed.
I have successfully discovered
twelve thousand ideas that don't work.
~Thomas A. Edison~

I have friends in overalls whose friendship
I would not swap for the favor of
the kings of the world.
~Thomas A. Edison~

Flora Edwards

In helping others, we shall help ourselves,
for whatever good we give out
completes the circle and comes back to us.
~Flora Edwards~

Tyron Edwards

The great end of education is to discipline
rather than to furnish the mind;
to train it to the use of its own powers,
rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
~Tyron Edwards~

This world is the land of the dying;
the next is the land of the living.
~Tyron Edwards~

Albert Einstein

I have no special talents.
I am only passionately curious.
~Albert Einstein~

Coincidence
is God's way of remaining anonymous.
~Albert Einstein~

We are in the position of a little child
entering a huge library filled with books
in many different languages.
The child knows someone
must have written those books.
It does not know how.
It does not understand the languages
in which they are written.
The child dimly suspects a mysterious order
in the arrangement of the books but doesn't
know what it is. That, it seems to me,
is the attitude of even
the most intelligent human being toward God.
We see a universe marvelously arranged
and obeying certain laws,
but only dimly understand these laws.
Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious
force that moves the constellations.
~Albert Einstein~

I want to know how God created this world.
I am not interested in this or that phenomenon,
in the spectrum of this or that element.
I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.
~Albert Einstein~

There was this huge world out there,
independent of us human beings
and standing before us like a great,
eternal riddle, at least partly accessible
to our inspection and thought.
The contemplation of that world
beckoned like a liberation.
~Albert Einstein~

I am happy because
I want nothing from anyone.
I do not care for money.
Decorations, titles, or distinctions
mean nothing to me.
I do not crave praise.
The only thing that gives me pleasure,
apart from my work, my violin,
and my sailboat,
is the appreciation
of my fellow workers.
~Albert Einstein~

The feeling for what ought
and ought not to be
grows and dies like a tree,
and no fertilizer of any kind
will do much good.
What the individual can do
is give a fine example,
and have the courage
to firmly uphold ethical convictions
in a society of cynics.
I have for a long time tried to
conduct myself this way,
with varying success.
~Albert Einstein~

The essential in the existence
of a man like me
is what he thinks and how he thinks,
not what he does or suffers.
~Albert Einstein~

It is high time that the ideal of success
should be replaced by the ideal of service.
~Albert Einstein~

I am enough of an artist to draw
freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important
than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
~Albert Einstein~

God does not play dice with the Universe.
~Albert Einstein~

The important thing
is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own
reason for existing.
One cannot help but be in awe
when he contemplates
the mysteries of eternity,
of life, of the marvelous structure
of reality. It is enough if one tries merely
to comprehend a little of this mystery
every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
~Albert Einstein~

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
~Albert Einstein~

My religion consists of a humble
admiration of the illimitable superior spirit
who reveals himself in the slight details
we are able to perceive with
our frail and feeble mind.
~Albert Einstein ~

The value of a man resides in what he gives
and not in what he is capable of receiving.
~Albert Einstein~

When his wife asked him to change clothes
to meet the German Ambassador Einstein replied,
If they want to see me, here I am.
If they want to see my clothes,
open my closet and show them my suits.
~Albert Einstein~

When the solution is simple,
God is answering.
~Albert Einstein~

Teaching should be such
that what is offered
is perceived as a valuable gift
and not as a hard duty.
~Albert Einstein~

Sometimes one pays most for the things
one gets for nothing.
~Albert Einstein~

A person starts to live
when he can live outside himself.
~Albert Einstein~

A human being is part of the whole
called by us universe,
a part limited in time and space.
We experience ourselves, our thoughts
and feelings as something separate from the rest.
A kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves
from the prison by widening our circle
of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty...
We shall require a substantially
new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
~Albert Einstein~

It's not that I'm so smart,
it's just that I stay with problems longer.
~Albert Einstein~

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger
and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius --
and a lot of courage to move
in the opposite direction.
~Albert Einstein~

I am absolutely convinced
that no wealth in the world
can help humanity forward,
even in the hands of
the most devoted worker.
The example of great and pure
individuals is the only thing
that can lead us to noble
thoughts and deeds.
Money only appeals
to selfishness and
irresistibly invites abuse.
Can anyone imagine Moses,
Jesus or Gandhi armed
with the money-bags of Carnegie?.
~Albert Einstein~

If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough.
~Albert Einstein~

Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes and
think with their minds.
~Albert Einstein~

If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
~Albert Einstein~

The ideals which have lighted my way,
and time after time have given me
new courage to face life cheerfully,
have been Kindness, Beauty, and
Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts,
possessions, outward success, luxury
have always seemed to me contemptible.
~Albert Einstein~

One thing I have learned in a long life:
that all our science, measured against reality,
is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is
the most precious thing we have.
~Albert Einstein~

Humanity has every reason
to place the proclaimers of
high moral standards and values
above the discoverers of objective truth.
What humanity own to personalities like
Buddha, Moses, and Jesus
ranks for me higher than
all the achievements
of the inquiring constructive mind.
~Albert Einstein~

The most important human endeavor
is the striving for morality in our actions.
Our inner balance and even our very existence
depend on it. Only morality in our actions
can give beauty and dignity to life.
~Albert Einstein~

A hundred times every day
I remind myself that my inner and outer life
depend on the labors of other men,
living and dead,
and that I must exert myself
in order to give in the same measure
as I have received
and am still receiving.
~Albert Einstein~

A human being is a part of the whole,
called by us "Universe,"
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself,
his thoughts and feelings as
something separated from the rest --
a kind of optical delusion
of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of
prison for us, restricting us
to our personal desires and to affection
for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves
from this prison by widening
our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
but the striving for such achievement
is in itself a part of the liberation
and a foundation for inner security.
~Albert Einstein~

How strange is the lot of us mortals!
Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;
for what purpose he knows not,
though he senses it.
But without deeper reflection
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
~Albert Einstein~

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner
of life is best for everyone,
best both for the body and the mind.
~Albert Einstein~

Nor do I take into account
a danger of starting a chain reaction
of a scope great enough to destroy part
or all of the planet�
But it is not necessary to imagine
the earth being destroyed like a nova
by a stellar explosion to understand vividly
the growing scope of atomic war
and to recognize that unless another war
is prevented it is likely to ring destruction
on a scale never before held possible,
and even now hardly conceived,
and that little civilization
would survive it.
~Albert Einstein~

One cannot help but be in awe
when one contemplates the mysteries
of eternity, of life, of the marvelous
structure of reality.
It is enough if one tries merely
to comprehend a little of
this mystery each day.
~Albert Einstein~

We cannot solve our problems
with the same thinking we used
when we created them.
~Albert Einstein~

It is the supreme art
of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
~Albert Einstein~

Out of clutter,
find Simplicity.
From discord,
find Harmony.
In the middle of difficulty
lies opportunity.
~Albert Einstein~

I live in that solitude
which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
~Albert Einstein~

The idle man does not know
what it is to enjoy rest.
~Albert Einstein~

Strive not to be a success,
but rather to be of value.
~Albert Einstein~

We believe that an informed citizenry
will act for life and not for death.
~Albert Einstein~

The pioneers of a warless world
are the youth who refuse military service.
~Albert Einstein~

The strength of the Constitution
lies entirely in the determination
of each citizen to defend it.
Only if every single citizen feels duty bound
to do his share in this defense are
the constitutional rights secure.
~Albert Einstein~

Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
~Albert Einstein~

Never regard study as a duty,
but as the enviable opportunity to learn
to know the liberating influence of beauty
in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy
and to the profit of the community
o which your later work belongs.
~Albert Einstein~

Of what significance is one's own existence,
one is basically unaware.
What does a fish know about the water
in which he swims all his life?
The bitter and the sweet come from outside.
The hard from within,
from one's own efforts.
For the most part I do what my own nature
drives me to do. It is embarrassing
to earn such respect and love for it.
~Albert Einstein~

Only morality in our actions
can give beauty and dignity to life.
~Albert Einstein~

If most of us are ashamed of
shabby clothes and shoddy furniture,
let us be more ashamed of
shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies....
It would be a sad situation
if the wrapper were better than
the meat wrapped inside it.
~Albert Einstein~

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts.
For that he does not really need a college.
He can learn them from books.
The value of an education in a liberal arts college
is not learning of many facts but
the training of the mind to think something
that cannot be learned from textbooks.
~Albert Einstein~

A photograph never grows old.
You and I change,
people change all through the months and years,
but a photograph always remains the same.
How nice to look at a photograph
of mother or father taken many years ago.
You see them as you remember them.
But as people live on,
they change completely.
That is why I think
a photograph can be kind.
~Albert Einstein~

All of us who are concerned for peace
and triumph of reason and justice
must be keenly aware how small an influence reason
and honest good will exert upon events
in the political field.
~Albert Einstein~

Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
~Albert Einstein~

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think that people want peace so much
that one of these days government had better
get out of their way and let them have it.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower~

Leadership is the art of
getting someone else
to do something you want done
because he wants to do it.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower~

We are going to have peace
even if we have to fight for it.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower~

If you want total security,
go to prison. There you're fed,
clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking...
is freedom.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower~

What counts is not necessarily the size
of the dog in the fight --
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower~

Freedom has its life in
the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men
and so it must be daily earned and refreshed --
else like a flower cut from its
life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower~

Here in America
we are descended in spirit
from revolutionists and rebels --
men and women who dare to
dissent from accepted doctrine.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower~

Every gun that is made,
every warship launched,
every rocket fired signifies,
in the final sense,
a theft from those who hunger
and are not fed,
those who are cold
and are not clothed.
~Dwight David Eisenhower~

In preparing for battle
I have always found that
plans are useless,
but planning is indispensable.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower~

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry
can compel the proper meshing
of the huge industrial and military machinery
of defense with our peaceful methods
and goals, so that security and liberty
may prosper together.
~Dwight D Eisenhower~

The world moves,
and ideas that were once good are not always good.
~Dwight David Eisenhower~

Charles W. Eliot

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;
they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors,
and the most patient of teachers.
~Charles W. Eliot~

George Eliot

What greater thing is there
for two human souls than to feel
that they are joined together
to strengthen each other in all labour,
to minister to each other in all sorrow,
to share with each other in all gladness,
to be one with each other
in the silent unspoken memories?
~George Eliot~

Our consciousness rarely registers
the beginning of a growth within us
any more than without us;
there have been many circulations
of the sap before we detect
the smallest sign of the bud.
~George Eliot~

I think I should have no other mortal wants,
if I could always have plenty of music.
It seems to infuse strength into my limbs
and ideas into my brain.
Life seems to go on without effort,
when I am filled with music.
~George Eliot~

I like not only to be loved,
but to be told that I am loved.
~George Eliot~

Failure after long perseverance
is much grander than never
to have a striving good enough
to be called a failure.
~George Eliot~

Delicious autumn!
My very soul is wedded to it,
and if I were a bird I would
fly about the earth
seeking the successive autumns.
~George Eliot~

T. S. Eliot

We know too much,
and are convinced of too little.
Our literature is a substitute for religion,
and so is our religion.
~T. S. Eliot~

Walter Elliott

Perseverance is not a long race;
it is many short races one after another.
~Walter Elliott~

Havelock Ellis

Dancing is the loftiest,
the most moving,
the most beautiful of the arts,
because it is not mere translation
or abstraction from life;
it is life itself.
~Havelock Ellis~

"Charm" -- which means
the power to affect work
without employing brute force --
is indispensable to women.
Charm is a woman's strength
just as strength is a man's charm.
~Havelock Ellis~

Keith Ellis

Like the elephant,
we are unconscious of
our own strength.
When it comes to understanding
the power we have to
make a difference in our own lives,
we might as well be asleep.
If you want to make your
dreams come true, wake up.
Wake up to your own strength.
Wake up to the role you play
in your own destiny.
Wake up to the power you have
to choose what you think, do, and say.
~Keith Ellis~

Ralph Ellison

All my life I had been looking
for something, and everywhere
I turned someone tried to tell me
what it was. I accepted their
answers too, though they were
often in contradiction and
even self-contradictory.
I was na�ve. I was looking
for myself and asking everyone
except myself questions which I,
and only I, could answer.
It took me a long time
and much painful boomeranging
of my expectations to achieve
a realization everyone else appears
to have been born with:
that I am nobody but myself.
~Ralph Ellison~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only gift
is a portion of thyself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Adopt the pace of nature:
her secret is patience.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

How cunningly nature hides
every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity
under roses and violets and morning dew!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

No change of circumstances
can repair a defect of character.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

I suppose every old scholar
has had the experience
of reading something in a book
which was significant to him,
but which he could never find again.
Sure he is that he read it there,
but no one else ever read it,
nor can he find it again,
though he buy the book
and ransack every page.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

'Tis the good reader
that makes the good book;
in every book he finds passages
which seem confidences
or asides hidden from all else
and unmistakenly meant for his ear;
the profit of books is according
to the sensibility of the reader;
the profoundest thought or passion
sleeps as in a mine,
until it is discovered
by an equal mind and heart.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Love and you shall be loved.
All love is mathematically just,
as much as the two sides of
an algebraic equation.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

God offers to every mind its choice
between truth and repose.
Take which you please --
you can never have both.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

He who is not everyday
conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

What is a weed?
A plant whose virtues have not yet
been discovered.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The reason why all men honor love
is because it looks up, and not down;
aspires and not despairs.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Thou art to me a delicious torment.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Love is like a hunter,
who cares not for the game
when once caught,
which he may have pursued
with the most intense
and breathless eagerness.
Love is strongest in pursuit;
friendship in possession.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

If a man's eye is on the Eternal,
his intellect will grow.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Once you make a decision,
the universe conspires to make it happen.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Thought is the blossom; language the bud;
action the fruit behind it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

By necessity, by proclivity,
and by delight, we all quote.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Unless you try to do something beyond
what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

A friend is a person with whom
I may be sincere.
Before him I may think aloud.
I am arrived at last
in the presence of a man
so real and equal,
that I may drop even those
undermost garments of dissimulation,
courtesy, and second thought,
which men never put off,
and may deal with him
with the simplicity
and wholeness with which one
chemical atom meets another.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

It is one of the most beautiful compensations
of this life that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

We have a great deal more kindness
than is ever spoken.
The whole human family is bathed
with an element of love like a fine ether.
How many persons we meet in houses,
whom we scarcely speak to,
whom yet we honor and who honor us!
How many we see in the street,
or sit with in church, whom though silently,
we warmly rejoice to be with!
Read the language
of these wandering eye-beams.
The heart knoweth.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men,
to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

My good hoe
as it bites the ground
revenges my wrongs,
and I have less lust
to bite my enemies.
In the smoothing the rough hillocks,
I smooth my temper.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The secret in education
lies in respecting the student.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising up every time we fail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

When the eyes say one thing
and the tongue another,
the practiced person
relies on the language of the first.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

All our progress is an unfolding,
like a vegetable bud.
You have first an instinct,
then an opinion, then a knowledge
as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.
Trust the instinct to the end,
though you can render no reason.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Sculpture and painting
have the effect of teaching us
manners and abolishing hurry.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The best effect of fine persons
is felt after we have left their presence.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Speak what you think today
in words as hard as cannon-balls
and tomorrow speak what tomorrow
thinks in hard words again,
though it contradicts every thing
you said today.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

My chief want in life
is someone who shall make me
do what I can.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Courage charms us,
because it indicates that a man
loves an idea better than
all things in the world,
that he is thinking neither of his bed,
nor his dinner, nor his money,
but will venture all to put in act
the invisible thought of his mind.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Next to the originator of a good sentence
is the first quoter of it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Thought is the blossom;
language the bud;
action the fruit behind it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Don't waste yourself in rejection,
nor bark against the bad,
but chant the beauty of the good.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Character is that which can do without success.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when
he discovers that someone else believes in him and
is willing to trust him with his friendship.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

There is a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction
that envy is ignorance:
that imitation is suicide:
that he must take himself for better,
or for worse.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

I do then with my friends as I do with my books.
I would have them where I can find them,
but I seldom use them.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Great men are they who see
that spiritual is stronger
than material force,
that thoughts rule the world.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Is it so bad, then,
to be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood,
and Socrates, and Jesus,
and Luther, and Copernicus,
and Galileo, and Newton,
and every pure and wise spirit
that ever took flesh.
To be great
is to be misunderstood.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Beauty is the mark
God sets on virtue.
Every natural action is graceful;
every heroic act is also decent,
and causes the place and
the bystanders to shine.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

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;
begin it well and serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with
your old nonsense.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

As soon as beauty is sought
not from religion and love,
but for pleasure,
it degrades the seeker.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Do not make life hard to any.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

People seem not to see
that their opinion of the world
is also a confession of their character.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Shallow men believe in luck.
Strong men believe in cause and effect.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The louder he talked of his honor,
the faster we counted our spoons.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Conversation enriches the understanding;
but solitude is the school of genius.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Friendship demands
the ability to do without it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Flowers...are a proud assertion
that a ray of beauty outvalues
all the utilities of the world.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

There are many things of which
a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it,
Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it,
Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it,
Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong
to live as well as think.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

What you do speaks so loud
that I cannot hear what you say.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Nothing astonishes men so much
as common sense and plain dealing.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Immortality.
I notice that as soon as writers
broach this question they begin to quote.
I hate quotation.
Tell me what you know.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

That which we persist in doing
becomes easier for us to do;
not that the nature of the thing itself
is changed, but that our power to do
is increased.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Earth laughs in flowers.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The first thing a great person does,
is make us realize the insignificance
of circumstance.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

A man's action
is only a picture book of his creed.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Without ambition one starts nothing.
Without work one finishes nothing.
The prize will not be sent to you.
You have to win it.
The man who knows how
will always have a job.
The man who also knows why
will always be his boss.
As to methods there may be
a million and then some,
but principles are few.
The man who grasps principles
can successfully select his own methods.
The man who tries methods,
ignoring principles,
is sure to have trouble.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

I pay the schoolmaster,
but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

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.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Whatever you do,
you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone
to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe
your critics are right.
To map out a course of action
and follow it to an end
requires some of the same courage
that a soldier needs.
Peace has its victories,
but it takes brave men and women
to win them.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

A woman should always challenge
our respect, and never move our compassion.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

He who is in love
is wise and is becoming wiser,
sees newly every time he
looks at the object beloved,
drawing from it with his eyes
and his mind those virtues
which it possesses.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Sincerity is the highest
compliment you can pay.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Sow a thought and you reap an action;
sow an act and you reap a habit;
sow a habit and you reap a character;
sow a character and you reap a destiny.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The course of everything
goes to teach us faith.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

What a new face
courage puts on everything!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

A man's library is a sort of harem.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

In the woods we return to reason and faith.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Thou art to me a delicious torment.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself;
nothing, but the triumph of principles.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

None of us will ever accomplish
anything excellent or commanding
except when he listens to this whisper
which is heard by him alone.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

It is easy in the world to live
after the world's opinion, it is easy
in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who,
in the midst of the world,
keeps with perfect sweetness
the independence of solitude.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Use what language you will,
you can never say anything
but what you are.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The invariable mark of wisdom
is to see the miraculous in the common.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

By necessity, by proclivity,
and by delight, we all quote.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

All our progress is
an unfolding, like a vegetable bud.
You have first an instinct,
then an opinion, then a knowledge
as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.
Trust the instinct to the end,
though you can render no reason.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Guard well your spare moments.
They are like uncut diamonds.
Discard them and their value will
never be known. Improve them
and they will become
the brightest gems in a useful life.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Nothing can bring you peace
but yourself; nothing, but
the triumph of principles.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

An eye can threaten like
a loaded and leveled gun,
or it can insult like hissing
or kicking; or, in its altered mood,
by beams of kindness, it can make
the heart dance for joy....
One of the most wonderful things
in nature is a glance of the eye;
it transcends speech;
it is the bodily symbol of identity.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The wise man in the storm
prays God, not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Each man takes care
that his neighbor shall not cheat him.
But a day comes when
he begins to care that he does not cheat
his neighbor. Then all goes well.
He has changed his market-cart
into a chariot of the sun.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Every man I meet
is in some way my superior.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Men succeed when they realize that their failures
are the preparation for their victories.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The moment we indulge our affections,
the earth is metamorphosed;
there is no winter and no night;
all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,
-all duties even.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The purpose of life is not to be happy.
It is to be useful,
to be honorable,
to be compassionate,
to have it make some difference
that you have lived and lived well.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio,
but in the human voice when it speaks from its
instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Weed -- a plant whose virtues
have not yet been discovered.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Emmanuel

As your faith is strengthened
you will find that there is no longer the need
to have a sense of control,
that things will flow as they will,
and that you will flow with them,
to your great delight and benefit.
~Emmanuel~

Epictetus

The essence of philosophy
is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible
on external things.
~Epictetus~

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
~Epictetus~

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment
of what is desired,
but by controlling the desire.
~Epictetus~

Epicurus

It is not so much our friends' help
that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
~Epicurus~

The greater difficulty,
the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempests.
~Epicures~

Desiderius Erasmus

It is the chiefest point of happiness
that a man is willing to be what he is.
~Desiderius Erasmus~

When I get a little money I buy books;
and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
~Desiderius Erasmus~

Paul Erlich

The first rule to tinkering is
to save all the parts.
~Paul Erlich~

Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn;
in age we understand.
~Marie Ebner-Eschenbach~

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you,
and that you will work them,
water them with your blood and tears
and you laughter till they bloom,
till you yourself burst into bloom.
~Clarissa Pinkola Estes~

Ignacio 'Nacho' Estrada

If a child can't learn the way we teach,
maybe we should teach the way they learn.
~Ignacio 'Nacho' Estrada~

Euclid

The laws of nature are but
the mathematical thoughts of God.
~Euclid~

Euripedes

What we look for does not come to pass;
God finds a way for what none foresaw.
~Euripedes~

Rear Admiral Marsha Evans

Working hard overcomes a whole lot of other obstacles.
You can have unbelievable intelligence,
you can have connections,
you can have opportunities fall out of the sky.
But in the end, hard work is the true,
enduring characteristic of successful people.
~Rear Admiral Marsha Evans~

Douglas Everett

There are some people who live in a dream world,
and there are some who face reality;
and then there are those who turn one into the other.
~Douglas Everett~

Sam Ewing

Hard work spotlights the character of people:
some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses,
and some don't turn up at all.
~Sam Ewing~

AntoineDe Saint-Exupery

A single event can awaken within us
a stranger totally unknown to us.
To live is to be slowly born.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery~

If you want to build a ship,
don't drum up people to collect wood
and don't assign them tasks and work,
but rather teach them to long for
the endless immensity of the sea.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery~

song playing....In the Year 2525

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