Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

The right way is the hard way.

I've got a feeling that if it's so easy for you - the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say.

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.

Sometimes, challenges and struggles are exactly what we need in our lives...May you welcome every effort, every struggle, and every challenge...May you open your wings and fly!

When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.

Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.

You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

A smooth life is not a victorious life.

Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.

There is no gain without struggle.

I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, "What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career."

Anything worth having is going to be hard