Short Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” – 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
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Good men must not obey the laws too well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The years teach much which the days never know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People only see what they are prepared to see.” – 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
“Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A great man is always willing to be little.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be great is to be misunderstood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You become what you think about all day long.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The reward of a thing well done is having done it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
