As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

About Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and...

More quotations from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The year hastens to its close. What is it to me? That I am twenty-five or fifty-eight is as nothing. Should I mourn that the spring flowers are gone, that the summer fruit has ripened, that the harvest is reaped, that the snow has fallen?

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

More quotations tagged with “trust”

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

—Martha Nussbaum

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

—Johann K. Lavater

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe… Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

—Henry Stimson

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

—Henry L. Stimson

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

—Graham Greene

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