Top 10 Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance"

To be great is to be misunderstood

For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasures

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Travelling is a fool's paradise

Trust thyself. Every heart vibrates to that iron string.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature...

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance

Insist on yourself; never imitate

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.