Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

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

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Be good to your work, your work, and your friend.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

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

Accept your genius and say what you think.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Self-trust is the first secret to success.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

Travel is a fools paradise.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

The first wealth is health.

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

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.