Believe in yourself our strength grows out of our weakness Auteur: Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Quote More from Ralph Waldo Emerson “We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and act…” “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” “We must be our own before we can be another's.” “Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.”