Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Faith, Authority)
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Civilization, End, Race, Will)
"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Desire, Freedom, Gold)
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Creation)
"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Coach, Feet, Man)
"The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Effort)
"The first wealth is health."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Health, Wealth, First)
"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Age, Woman)
"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Books)
"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Society, Common sense, Example)
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Cause, Effect, Luck)
"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Imagination, Science, Debt)
"Revolutions go not backward."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest gift is a portion of thyself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Time, Glory, Lies, Living)
"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
(Related: Health, Eye)
"The highest revelation is that God is in every man."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: God, Man)
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Wisdom)
"Reality is a sliding door."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Reality)
"The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Fame, Martyr, Prison, Tongue)
"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Passion, World, Youth)
"The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Friend)
"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: War, Peace)
"The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Eye, Reason)
"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Lies, Man, Reason, Unity, World)
"The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Genius, Confidence, Man)
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Opportunity, Man, Want)
"People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Life, People, Content)
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Integrity, Mind, Nothing)
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Enthusiasm, Nothing)
"Nothing external to you has any power over you."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Power, Nothing)
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Common sense, Nothing)
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Decision, Universe)
"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Learning, Man)
"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Reading, Writing)
"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Change, Character, Circumstances)
"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Beauty, God, Opportunity)
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Nature)
"Nature hates calculators."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Nature)
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Nature, Books, Eyes)
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Nature, Colors, Spirit)
"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Peace)
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Peace, Understanding, Violence)
"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: People, Gifts)
"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: People)
"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: People, Character, Confession, Opinion, World)
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: People)
"O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Day)
"The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Thought, Freedom)
"Power and speed be hands and feet."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Power, Feet)
"There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Dream, Illusion, Snow)
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Time, Glory)
"Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Faith, Moments, Vice)
"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Want, Will)
"Our best thoughts come from others."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Thoughts)
"Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Admiration, Old)
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: People, Character, Confession, Opinion, World)
"What you are comes to you."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Tension, Waiting, World)
"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Living)
"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Apples, Beliefs, Man)
"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Nature, State)
"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Poor)
"We are symbols, and inhabit symbols."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are wiser than we know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Time)
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Beauty, Happiness, Heart, Body, Children, Delight)
"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Strength, Gain, Temptation)
"We must be our own before we can be another's."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Nature, God)
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Change)
"A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Man)
"Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Mistake, Symbol)
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Kindness, Will)
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Heart, Day)
"Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Actions, Words)
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Lies)
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Wisdom, Goodness)
"What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Word)
"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Saying)
"Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Time, Possession)
"When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Quarrel)
"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Nature, Work, Genius)
"We acquire the strength we have overcome."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Strength)
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Future, Nothing, Now, Past)
"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
(Related: God, Anarchy, Chance, Universe)
"The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Dream, Occupation, Youth)
"The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Being, Ugliness)
"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Eyes, Sky)
"The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Time, Wisdom, Work)
"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Society, Value)
"The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Value, Will)
"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Evil)
"The years teach much which the days never know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Years)
"There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Day, Man, Self)
"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Crime, Driving, Interest, Necessity, Right, Ugly)
"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Right)
"There is always safety in valor."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Safety, Valor)
"There is an optical illusion about every person we meet."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Illusion)
"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Folk, Hesitation)
"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Life)
"Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Language, Will)
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Will)
"Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Truth, Property, Treasure)
"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Love, Truth, Affectation, Goodness)
"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Truth, Doubt, Lies)
"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Reading, Writing)
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Trust, Will)
"There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Quality, Difference)
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Accomplishment, Trying, World)
"To be great is to be misunderstood."
- 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
(Related: Travel, World)
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Time)
"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Mother, Sleep)
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Reward)
"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Trust, End, Instinct, Reason)
"Earth laughs in flowers."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Earth, Flowers)
"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Power, Wisdom)
"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Will, World)
"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Self)
"Cause and effect are two sides of one fact."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Cause, Effect, Fact)
"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Soul, Character, Intellect, Will)
"Children are all foreigners."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Children, Foreigners)
"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Genius, Clothes, Common sense)
"Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Curiosity, Lying)
"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Death, Monument, Sun)
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: May)
"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Death, Fear)
"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Capitalism, Result)
"Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Truth, Choice, Mind)
"Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Age, Books)
"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Beauty)
"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Mother, Enthusiasm, Effort, Nothing)
"Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Laws, State)
"Every artist was first an amateur."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Artist, First)
"Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Man, Quotation)
"Every burned book enlightens the world."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: World)
"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Will)
"Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Thought, Appearance, Fact, Morals)
"Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Science, Fact)
"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Man)
"Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Faults, Man, Needs)
"Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Constitution, Man, Needs)
"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Man, Quotation)
"Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Man)
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Life, Actions)
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Patience)
"Money often costs too much."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Money)
"A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Facts, Man)
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Consistency)
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Nature, Friend, May)
"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A great man is always willing to be little."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Man)
"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Courage)
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Man)
"A man in debt is so far a slave."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Debt, Man)
"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
(Related: Dreams, Life, Men, God, Man)
"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."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Peace, Work, Heart, Gay, Man)
"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Life, Day, Mind)
"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Money, Man, Principles)
"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Beauty, Grace)
"America is another name for opportunity."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Opportunity, America, Name)
"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Courage, Man)
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Value)
"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Beauty, Old)
"As soon as there is life there is danger."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Life, Danger)
"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Man)
"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Day, Man)
"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Action, Theory, Worth)
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Growth, Friends, Man)
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All mankind love a lover."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Love, Mankind)
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Life)
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Trust)
"All diseases run into one, old age."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Age, Old)
"Beauty without expression is boring."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Beauty, Expression)
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Work, Cure)
"It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Church, Preaching, Service)
"If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Man, Will, World)
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Man, Night, Stars, Years)
"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Man, Tongue)
"Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Fact, Spiritual, Symbol)
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Art, Heart)
"Every hero becomes a bore at last."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Safety)
"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Body, Evening, Man)
"It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Inspiration, Circumstances, Fact, Passion)
"It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Heart, Christian, Desire, Nothing, Office)
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Life)
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Blessings, Friends, Old)
"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Women, Thought, Civilization, Influence, Measure)
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Art, Beauty, Love, Creation, Taste)
"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Action, Actions, Man)
"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Love, Men, Science, Wonder)
"Men are what their mothers made them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Mothers)
"Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Thoughts, Man, Wishes, Wood)
"Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Time, Haste, Manners, Nothing)
"It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: State, World)
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Quality, Actors, Events)
"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Time)
"Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Life, Day, Man, Thinking)
"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Gods, May)
"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Knowledge)
"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Dreams, Character)
"If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Make yourself necessary to somebody."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Manners, Support)
"Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: France, Reading, Sense, Writing)
"Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Spirit)
"Every wall is a door."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Nature)
"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Deeds, Existence, Fate, Nothing, State)
"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: People, Fear, World)
"In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Society)
"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Truth, Fiction, Reality)
"I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Love, Nature, Day)
"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Beauty, Flowers, World)
"For every benefit you receive a tax is levied."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Tax)
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Peace, Mind)
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Gain)
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Friendship, Soul, Immortality)
"Hitch your wagon to a star."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Giving, Hate, Man)
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Hate, Quotations)
"Genius always finds itself a century too early."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Genius)
"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Life, Fear)
"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Hearing, Man)
"Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Gifts)
"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Thoughts, Force, Spiritual, World)
"Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Old, Want)
"Great geniuses have the shortest biographies."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Good men must not obey the laws too well."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Laws)
"God screens us evermore from premature ideas."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: God, Ideas)
"God enters by a private door into every individual."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: God)
"Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Accomplishments)
"Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Events)