Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

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

Beauty without expression tires.

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

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

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

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.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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

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

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

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.

Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

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