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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Total quotes: 48
“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
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, To Laugh Often And Much Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson- Poem Hunter
Tagged: How To Live A Better Life
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations- 1841-1844
Tagged: Life, risking, experiment, Experiences, risks, Inspirational, Motivational, life advice, Aphorisms
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
Tagged: Blessings, Friendships, Friends, stupidity, ridiculousness
“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: Meaning, Life, Ambition, Remembered, World, accomplishments
“Be not the slave of your own past―plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, A Year with Emerson: A Daybook
Tagged: self-empowerment, Motivational
“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tagged: Life, Waiting, Lost Chances
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
Tagged: Nature, environment
“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
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Untitled
Tagged: Success
“To be hurried away by every event is to have no political system at all.”
— Napoleon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: strategy
“Things always bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: Life
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates…and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson: Essays and Lectures
Tagged: Misunderstood, Greatness
“The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson: Essays and Lectures: Nature: Addresses and Lectures / Essays: First and Second Series / Representative Men / English Traits / The Conduct of Life(Library of America)
Tagged: Boring, ugly
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
“The lesson he teaches is that which vigor always teaches—that there is room for it.”
— Napoleon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: strategy
“Good and bad are but names very readily transferred to this or that. The only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it... We cannot spend the day in explanation.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-reliance and Other Essays
Tagged: Good and Bad
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tagged: Philosophy, Psychology, The Person You'll Become
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 40 Inspiring Quotes That Will Instantly Boost Your Confidence
Tagged: Selfie Captions, Irreplacable, Be Different, accomplishments, Selfie Captions
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else in the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Introduction to Ralph Waldo Emerson — Pensive Series
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Self-Reliance, accomplishments, Be yourself
“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Solid
“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)
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
Tagged: Life, experiment, better, Mindset, positive, Positivity
“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
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2
Tagged: Everyday Happiness, motivation
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt 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 Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson(Modern Library Classics)
Tagged: Moving On, Mistakes, finish
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
Tagged: Life Wisdoms, Life Quotes, Happiness, Sadness
“Money often costs too much.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life
Tagged: Money, cost, Sacrifice
“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)
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