Self-Reliance Quotes

“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: Building Inner Strength That Transcends External Influence

“Greatness appeals to the future. If I can be firm enough today to do right and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now. Be it how it will, do right now. Always scorn appearances and you always may.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: Building Inner Strength That Transcends External Influence

“Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: Building Inner Strength That Transcends External Influence

“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself and will explain your other genuine actions.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: Building Inner Strength That Transcends External Influence

“A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: Building Inner Strength That Transcends External Influence

“Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: Building Inner Strength That Transcends External Influence

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: Building Inner Strength That Transcends External Influence

“Your goodness must have some edge to it-else it is none.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: Building Inner Strength That Transcends External Influence