Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

America is another name for opportunity... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon as there is life there is danger... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is what he thinks about all day long... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always do what you are afraid to do... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

All mankind love a lover... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

All diseases run into one, old age... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without expression is boring... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every hero becomes a bore at last... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the morning a man walks with his whole body.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not length of life, but depth of life... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are what their mothers made them... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day... view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson