"Go put your creed into your deed,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”
“We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.”
“What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?”
More on Authenticity
“There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.”
“To be successful, you can't just run on the fast track; run on your track.”
“I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things.”