Best Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Life is a journey, not a destination.

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

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Every artist was first an amateur.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it, nothing great was ever achieved.

Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, begin it well and serenely.

Best Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson part 2

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

We are schools of the future.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

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

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with worry, fret, and anxiety.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that, in all your readings, have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Shallow people believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, begin it well and serenely.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.