The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.
Interpretation
Character victories are immediate and have a universal impact.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of character and integrity in achieving personal victories. Unlike achievements that may take time or effort to recognize, victories in character are immediate and resonate with everyone, highlighting the profound influence that personal integrity can have on the broader community.
In practice
This quote can be used as a closing statement in a speech about moral leadership.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.
I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.
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