Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“We must be our own before we can be another's.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
- 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 Quotes
“Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“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 well and serenely...”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“We are always getting ready to live, but never living”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Make yourself necessary to somebody.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“We are wiser than we know.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
"Every artist was first an amateur.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“The highest revelation is that God is in every man”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
