Every man is eloquent once in his life. Ralph Waldo Emerson Life, Public speaking You May Also Like Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. By Warren Buffet Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Positive, Wise To make ethical choices you cannot have dilemmas betweeen the particular (friends, family) and the general. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Ethics, Friendship, Life, Wise Most of the evils of life arise from man’s inability to sit still in a room. By Blaise Pascal Funny, Life, Sarcastic The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his ass. By Gen. Joseph Stillwell Achievement, Fame, Funny, Life Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. By Thomas Carlyle Life, Powerful, Vocation Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. By Samuel Johnson Achievement, Empowerment, Life You May Also Like from Ralph Waldo Emerson The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Farmers, Farming, Nobility To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Curiosity, Intelligence, Nature Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Failure, Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Uplifting The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Funny, Trust If a man has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Competitive advantage, Quality There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Comforting, Wisdom
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. By Warren Buffet Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Positive, Wise
To make ethical choices you cannot have dilemmas betweeen the particular (friends, family) and the general. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Ethics, Friendship, Life, Wise
Most of the evils of life arise from man’s inability to sit still in a room. By Blaise Pascal Funny, Life, Sarcastic
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his ass. By Gen. Joseph Stillwell Achievement, Fame, Funny, Life
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. By Thomas Carlyle Life, Powerful, Vocation
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. By Samuel Johnson Achievement, Empowerment, Life
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Farmers, Farming, Nobility
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Curiosity, Intelligence, Nature
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Failure, Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Uplifting
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Funny, Trust
If a man has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Competitive advantage, Quality
There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Comforting, Wisdom
