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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Total quotes: 24
“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Worship', Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Including Essays, First and Second Series, English Traits, Nature and Conduct of Life
Tagged: Opinion, character, Opinion Matters
“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tagged: Life, Waiting, Lost Chances
“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bloom's How to Write About Ralph Waldo Emerson(Bloom's How to Write About Literature)
Tagged: thesis, humor
“Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: worry, Sorrow, Faith
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, A quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tagged: Dreams, Inspirational
“Things always bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: Life
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Tagged: Being Yourself, Being the bigger person, Standing Out, Being There, Being True
“Napoleon had 'two o'clock in the morning courage.' That's the type you need when caught off guard.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: strategy
“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
“Each moment of the year has its own beauty, a picture which was never before and shall never be seen again.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Greatest Inspirational Quotes: 365 days to more Happiness, Success, and Motivation
Tagged: Inspirational, Postive
“Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
Tagged: Nature, Stream, Ripples
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
“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, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Glory Of Friendship Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson- Poem Hunter
Tagged: Friendship, inspiration, Companionship
“He saw only the object: the obstacle must give way.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Napoleon: The Man of the World
Tagged: Obstacles
“Every artist was first an amateur”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tagged: Laughter, laugh, Flower, Earth
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Merlin's Song
Tagged: Writers, Life In Transit, Adventure, Architecture Of Happiness, Seasons, Sunshine, Wanderlust
“The words I and mine constitute ignorance.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: Life
“The cheapness of man is everyday's tragedy.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: Life
“Not blood-thirsty, but not sparing of blood.”
— Napoleon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: strategy
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Positive Quotes
Tagged: Peace, Relaxation, relax
“When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes and none will. His glass is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman; then a road-contractor then a student of fishes; then a buffalo hunting explorer; or a semi-savage Western General.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: Life
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