“…the only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson, House and Garden Volume 163 (1925)

The most truthful quote in my eyes from RW Emerson. If you really want to become something great, you can become great if you really try hard enough. What guides your life are your hopes and ambitions, against all odds.

People who were dirt poor when they were young became successful and wealthy, but that can’t happen overnight, and it requires a lot of hard work; you really have to decide that you want to be something or someone to become it.

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American poet among other things in the 19th century, and he had many great quotes about what he learned in his life.

RW Emerson’s bio:http://www.biography.com/people/ralph-waldo-emerson-9287153