Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Birth :- May 25, 1803 (Boston, Massachusetts, US)
Death :- April 27, 1882 (Concord, Massachusetts, US)
Occupation :- Essayist
Lecturer
Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. The great forerunner to the New Thought Movement, or the man who did more than any other thinker of our time to prepare the popular mind to accept the new practical idealism and gospel of optimism, was Ralph Waldo Emerson. He was the pioneer.
Here Are His Best Quotes:-
"All
life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be yourself in a world
that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest
accomplishment." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Adopt
the pace of nature: her secret is patience." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Do
not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For
every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
“Finish
each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and
absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a
new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What
lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies
within us.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It
is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with
them." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It
is not length of life, but depth of life." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Love
of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“Always
do what you are afraid to do.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What
you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“When
it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All
I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Character
is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as
think." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The
only way to have a friend is to be one." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A
man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends." --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Peace cannot be achieved
through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
“Is it so bad, then, to be
misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and
Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit
that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“Make your own Bible. Select
and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to
you like the blast of a trumpet.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nobody can bring you
peace but yourself." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For everything you have
missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose
something else.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Whatever course you decide
upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always
difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To
map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Live in the sunshine, swim the
sea, drink the wild air.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What you are comes to you”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All mankind love a lover." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man is what he thinks
about all day long." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our greatest glory is not
in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
“Whatever you do, you need
courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe
your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end
requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its
victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"A chief event of life is
the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Dare to live the life you have
dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
“It is easy in the world to
live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect
sweetness the independence of solitude.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Solitude is impractical and
yet society is fatal.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every artist was first an
amateur." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Though we travel the
world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it
not." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The age of a woman
doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I cannot remember the books
I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Finish each day and be done
with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt
crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall
begin it well and serenely...” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only person you are
destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We must be our own before we
can be another's.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is a journey, not a
destination.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A great man is always
willing to be little." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The purpose of life is not to
be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it
make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“Nothing great was ever
achieved without enthusiasm.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend may well be
reckoned the masterpiece of nature." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Cultivate the habit of being
grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.
And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include
all things in your gratitude.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Without ambition one starts
nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you.
You have to win it.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You cannot do a kindness too
soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A hero is no braver than an
ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People do not seem to realize
that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are always getting ready to
live, but never living” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust men and they will
be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Death comes to all, but
great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows
cold." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be not the slave of your own
past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come
back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience
that shall explain and overlook the old.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Truth is beautiful,
without doubt; but so are lies." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust your instinct to
the end, though you can render no reason." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Shallow men believe in
luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Sometimes a scream is better
than a thesis.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Common sense is genius
dressed in its working clothes." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A foolish consistency is
the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and
divines." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Enthusiasm is the mother
of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"An ounce of action is
worth a ton of theory." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In art, the hand can
never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine." -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"It is one of the
beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help
another without helping himself." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man is usually more
careful of his money than he is of his principles." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Passion rebuilds the
world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He who is not everyday
conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life." -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"There was never a child
so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep." -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
“Life is a succession of
lessons which must be lived to be understood.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is at last sacred but
the integrity of your own mind.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No change of
circumstances can repair a defect of character." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Flowers... are a proud
assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If the stars should
appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The first wealth is
health." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What is a weed? A plant
whose virtues have never been discovered." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man is a god in ruins.
When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal,
as gently as we awake from dreams." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every man has his own
courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other
persons." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The real and lasting
victories are those of peace, and not of war." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great men are they who
see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the
world." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature and books belong
to the eyes that see them." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fear defeats more people
than any other one thing in the world." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A good indignation brings out all one's powers." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be yourself; no base imitator
of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than
another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at
which you are great, not what you were never made for.” -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“The mind, once stretched by a
new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest gift is a
portion of thyself." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You become what you think
about all day long.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In my walks, every man I meet
is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.” -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"A great part of courage
is the courage of having done the thing before." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Every experiment, by
multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will
fail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The good news is that the
moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been
taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance.
Success comes from within, not from without.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The sky is the daily
bread of the eyes." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"With the past, I have
nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Win as if you were used
to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"God enters by a private
door into every individual." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man is a method, a
progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him;
wherever he goes." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The health of the eye
seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far
enough." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Judge of your natural
character by what you do in your dreams." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People with great gifts
are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never." -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"The world is all gates,
all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck." --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is easy to live for others,
everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.” -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“That which we persist in doing
becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our
power to do has increased.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is creative reading as
well as creative writing.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is a series of surprises
and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.” --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature always wears the
colors of the spirit." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man is relieved and
happy 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." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Science does not know its
debt to imagination." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There are as many pillows
of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another
dream." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"This time, like all
times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing external to you has
any power over you.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every mind must make its
choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Beauty is an outward
gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been
refused." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every wall is a
door." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The reason why the world
lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with
himself." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People only see what they are
prepared to see.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Trust thyself: every heart
vibrates to that iron string.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There are other measures
of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every
day." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The creation of a thousand
forests is in one acorn” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Cause and effect are two
sides of one fact." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Doing well is the result
of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Hitch your wagon to a
star." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We acquire the strength
we have overcome." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We gain the strength of
the temptation we resist." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every man is a quotation
from all his ancestors." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every natural fact is a
symbol of some spiritual fact." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you would lift me up
you must be on higher ground." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no chance and
anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there
sitting in his sphere." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We do not yet possess
ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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