Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
1. Sprinkle joy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Genius is religious. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Imitation is suicide. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Truth is our element. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. Life is our dictionary. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. A man is a god in ruins. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. What you are comes to you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. The first wealth is health. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. Hitch your wagon to a star. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Blame is safer than praise. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. Money often costs too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. Thought is the seed of action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Give and it shall be given you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. This world belongs to the energetic. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. Life is a journey, not a destination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. Life is a progress, and not a station. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. We aim above the mark to hit the mark. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. Our strength grows out of our weakness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. Every burned book enlightens the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. Do the thing and you will have the power. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. We acquire the strength we have overcome. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. The one prudence in life is concentration. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. A man is what he thinks about all day long. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. A great man is always willing to be little. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. We become what we think about all day long. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. Valor consists in the power of self recovery. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. Great men exist that there may be greater men. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. Science does not know its debt to imagination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. People only see what they are prepared to see. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. The reality is more excellent than the report. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. The years teach much which the days never know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. Violence is not power, but the absence of power. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
53. Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
54. Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
55. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
56. We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
57. Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
58. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
59. Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
60. Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
61. Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
62. Go put your creed into the deed, nor speak with double tongue. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
63. Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
64. Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
65. The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
66. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
67. ‘Tis not important how the hero does this or that, but what he is. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
68. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
69. For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
70. Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
71. Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
72. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
73. For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? – Ralph Waldo Emerson
74. Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
75. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
76. Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
77. Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
78. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
79. Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
80. Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? – Ralph Waldo Emerson
81. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
82. Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
83. Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
84. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
85. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
86. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
87. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
88. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
89. You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
90. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
91. Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
92. Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
93. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
94. Speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
95. Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
96. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
97. Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
98. If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
99. Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
100. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. – Ralph Waldo Emerson