Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal without the poverty.

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

I live in a free country. And I have so much more than I need.

Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

We all have to make a lot of decisions in our lives. We all have to face pressures in our lives.

O people of America. The destinies of your country are in your own hands. They are committed to your own keeping. It is for you to say which ye will have, liberty or slavery, knowledge or ignorance, happiness or misery.

Today it is only the rich who are "free". They employ their time wisely or foolishly as they choose. They ask no one's permission and seek no one's advice whether they shall squander their substance in riotous living or devote themselves to good works. What they do with their time is their own affair. In the future such freedom would be open to everybody.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

It is no accident that this country has been blessed with its abundance and its history as the freest and most productive in the world.

I'm very blessed in a lot of ways. I can buy what I want, and I can go anywhere in the world.

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their cities and forts, with their morning and evening guns, and sails flapping in one's eye. I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy,--nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea,--and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.

Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what we wish, they still remain different. Whether or not I am my own master and can follow my own choice and whether the possibilities from which I must choose are many or few are two entirely different questions. The courtier living in the lap of luxury but at the beck and call of his prince may be much less free than a poor peasant or artisan, less able to live his own life and to choose his own opportunities for usefulness.

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.

With freedom comes responsibility