Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins of the world. You can live life joyously, beautifully, unmarred by the ugliness of sin. This is our confidence in you.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

I try very hard to live my life in an exemplary way, which is, you know, 'Shine bright like Frankie.'

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Veracity is the heart of morality.

How many people you bless is how you measure success

We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

Because life is short but sweet for certain

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in.

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

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.

Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.