Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
1884 - 1962
American Human Rights Activist, Diplomat
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have 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
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For each new morning with its light, for rest and shelter of the night, for health and food, for love and friends, for everything thy goodness sends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep your friendships in repair.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson