Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.

We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I have this strength that comes from knowledge.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

The more I thought about myself, the weaker I got. The more I recognized that I was serving a purpose larger than myself, the stronger I got.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

It's so easy and comfortable to lie to yourself. Success is to become who you are. I think Hollywood thinks in a totally different way. But I think that as a human being, and not only an actress, that's really how you lead a successful life.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.

May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.

You have a strong active nature. And this in you is a point of strength. If you can mould it rightly this will become a very great strength. On the other hand, this too is your weak point - a hindrance in sadhana.

Every moment is an invitation to live out of your weakness or to live out of your strength.

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.