Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 3
+1All promise outruns performance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The greatest man in history was the poorest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1We as for long life, but ’tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1There 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
+1The basis of good manners is self reliance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1If we encounter a man of great intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Language is fossil poetry.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1We are prisoners of ideas.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Go put your creed into your deed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Character is higher than intellect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
