Growing up, I would spend hours in my father's library poring over his volumes of the book "Successful Achievements" which was a wide collection of wisdom and inspiration in a four volume home study course of Successful Achievement by "Who's Who of Civilization."
These books, Wole Soyinka's life and watching my father, helped shape my life. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Abraham Lincoln are names that stood out for me in those volumes- Ngozichi Omekara
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Courage
Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Spirit and Strength
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Friendship
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on God
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Completion
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Genius
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Trust
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Aging and Beauty
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Character
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Exploration
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Taking Chances
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Love
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Individuality
Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Nature
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Greatness
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Spirit
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Achievement and Enthusiasm
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Knowledge
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Inner Peace
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Practice and Persistence
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Thought and Action
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Friendship
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Home and Friendship
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Time
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Greatness
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Trust
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Experience
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Reward
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Overcoming Fear
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Friendship
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Discovery
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Nature and Genius
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Education and Teaching
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Peace
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Beauty
Though you may travel the world to find the beautiful, you must have it within you or you will find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Beauty
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Service
It is one of the greatest compensations in life that no one can help another without helping themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Friendship
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,While he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
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