Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

"What you are comes to you."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Hate quotes.

"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Confidence quotes.

"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."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Solitude quotes.

"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Experience quotes.

"Self-trust is the essence of heroism."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Wisdom quotes.

"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. "
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ancestor of every action is a thought."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We become what we think about all day long."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Life quotes.

"What a new face courage puts on everything."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Courage quotes.

"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Eyes quotes.

"...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Trying quotes.

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Integrity quotes.

"Courtesy: Wishes not to be loved, but to be lovely; Not to be benefitted, but to be a benevolence."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Wishes quotes.

"All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Beauty quotes.

"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Grace quotes.

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People only see what they are prepared to see."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Truth quotes.

"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Life quotes.

"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Comedy quotes.