We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes Quotes

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“My giant goes with me wherever I go.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“Traveling is a fool’s paradise.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“The force of character is cumulative.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“Character teaches above our wills.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life,”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“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, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“We call it the moral sentiment. As we are, so we do; and as we do, so it is done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance

“I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables merely of his brother’s, or his brother’s brother’s God.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance