

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Traced to Society and Solitude (1870).
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society and Solitude · 1870
verified“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Conduct of Life · 1860
verified“You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Conduct of Life · 1860
verified“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Divinity College Address · 1838
verified“Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature · 1836
verified“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fortune of the Republic · 1878
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
Helen Keller
Optimism · 1903
verified“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
Helen Keller
Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf · 1896
verified“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller
We Bereaved · 1929
verified“You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Speech at a prayer meeting, New Delhi · 1947
verified“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
verified“The time is always right to do what's right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Future of Integration, address at Oberlin College · 1964
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