Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 2

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discontent is want of self-discipline it is infirmity of will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-command is the main elegance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances a hundred things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The high prize of life the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No sensible person ever made an apology.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a crack in everything God has made.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pride ruined the angels.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit and not give the bread of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a method a progressive arrangement a selecting principle gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are people who have an appetite for grief pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men are poets at heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors Landor replies "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson