Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

1.Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

2.The only way to have a friend is to be one.

3.Skill to do comes of doing.

4.The years teach much which the days never know.

5.Our distrust is very expensive.

6.Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

7.Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.

8.Life is a progress, and not a station.

9.It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.

10.The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

11.Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

12.Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

13.Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

14.If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

15.It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

17.Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

18.Self-trust is the first secret of success.

19.Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

20.A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

21.Go put your creed into the deed. Nor speak with double tongue.

22.We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

23.Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

24.Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

25.Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

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

27.Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

28.Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

29.Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.

30.To be great is to be misunderstood.

31.Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

32.Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

33.Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

34.We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

35.Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

36.What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

37.Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.

38.Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

39.In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

40.So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.

41.Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

42.The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

43.It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person — 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'

44.The ancestor of every action is a thought.

45.Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

46.To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

47.A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

48.Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

49.Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

50.The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.