Emerson Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

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

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.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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

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. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.

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

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Emerson Quotes part 2

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

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

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

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

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

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

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

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

Hitch your wagon to a star.

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

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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

The years teach much which the days never know.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

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

Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.