"One thing is forever good; That one..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?”
“The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.”
“Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.”
More on Success
“Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.”
“Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.”
“It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.”
More on Goodness
“You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.”
“In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”