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