Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force that thoughts rul...

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.

Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell w...

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immort...

Give all to love obey thy heart.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Dr...

What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph W...

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the mo...

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule t...

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Calmness is always Godlike.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a...

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes ...

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmon...

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent t...

There are people who have an appetite for grief pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. ...

Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed to be simple is to be great.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness...

Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of gr...

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of bein...

What is success? To laugh often and much To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection...

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

The First wealth is health.

We never touch but at points.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

The one thing in the world of value is the active soul.

We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but...

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we will not find ...

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance t...

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in...

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Character is what can do without success

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks...

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to ...

There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, ...

Beauty without expression tires.

There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ...

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real,...

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent we hav...

Beauty without expression is boring.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you sh...

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the co...

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronolog...

Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and ...

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they sa...

To laugh often and much;to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children,to lea...

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the exp...

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

All mankind love a lover.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its...

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are al...

The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its tho...

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquen...

We change whether we like it or not.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be ...

All men are poets at heart.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world wil...

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.