Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Aristotle

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
Jack Welch

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
Jack Welch

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma Bombeck

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
Erma Bombeck

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
Erma Bombeck

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David Thoreau