Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

For most people, their home is their most valuable asset. Yet most of us don't take care of it.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

I have a great house.

You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting thinking about how they might personalise that space and make them less bland and more autobiographical, and that's healthy, I think.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

Perhaps it's a curse, but when you are a Lutheran, you have a sense of responsibility.

We've got to be responsible, somebody's got to be responsible for it.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

I got an apartment for my family so they can move out of this one-room that they were renting out from a family.

Being responsible, I will direct, and will be responsible for nothing that I do not direct.

Men in great places are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

With great power goes great responsibility.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

I hope you keep them.

Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you...

I've never taught one, because if I taught one, I'd have to teach others... I would give myself over to a slavery, whereas I want to stay a free man.