Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes



       “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

      “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

         “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
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        “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

       “Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

       “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

       “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

       “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,

       “Life is a journey, not a destination.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

       “Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

       “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.” 
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       “Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

       “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


       “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

       “You become what you think about all day long.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

         “It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

       “Nothing external to you has any power over you.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “People only see what they are prepared to see.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

       “Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “Love, and you shall be loved.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “Beauty without expression is boring.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

       “We are always getting ready to live but never living.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

         “What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson