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.

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

"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.

"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

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

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

"The ancestor of every action is a thought."
-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

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

"The only gift is a portion of thyself."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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.

"I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Instinct quotes.

"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Memory 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.

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

"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.

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

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

"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Hate quotes.