Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Life is a journey, not a destination.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
A great man is always willing to be little.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
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 man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Trust yourself. Every heart vibrates to that iron string.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Men are what their mothers made them.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
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.
Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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.
In the woods, we return to reason and faith.
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Every artist was first an amateur.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.