Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 6

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go oft to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything you have missed you have gained something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever limits us we call Fate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A believer a mind whose faith is consciousness is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell or can make better chairs or knives crucibles or church organs than anybody else you will find a broad hardbeaten road to his house though it be in the woods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vigor is contagious and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world belongs to the energetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not live an equal life but one of contrasts and patchwork now a little joy then a sorrow now a sin then a generous or brave action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question is whether suicide is the way out or the way in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Culture with us ends in headache.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradicts everything you said today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life if freedom fail?
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
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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
Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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