Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes.
All 73 quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson in our collection.
“Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.”
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.”
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as to think.”
“As soon as there is life there is danger.”
“Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.”
“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”
“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
“The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.”
“All mankind love a lover.”
“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.”
“Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.”
“Our best thoughts come from others.”
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
“Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.”
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.”
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
“The first wealth is health.”
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.”
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.”
“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.”
“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”
“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.”
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.”
“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.”
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else, is the greatest accomplishment.”
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
“The highest revelation is that God is in every man.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in raising up every time we fail.”
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.”
“The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.”
“Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.”
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
“Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.”
“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.”
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