Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

• This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Smile, Confidence, Patience

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  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.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every 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, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

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  Writing, Heart, Optimistic

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

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  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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• Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

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  Appreciation, Children, Successful

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• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Adversity, Hard Times

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

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  Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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  Inspirational, Positive, Worry

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• 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 and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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  Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• Lose yourself in nature and find peace

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  Nature, Environment, Finding Peace

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• Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

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  Better Person, Persons

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• A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

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  Dream, Wall, Home

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

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Communication

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• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

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  Friendship, Family, Trust

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• Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Laughing, Laugh Often

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• Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

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  Motivational, Learning, Adversity

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  Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Dream, Mistake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.206, Harvard University Press

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• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

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  Believe, Heart, Men

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Faith, Spiritual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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  Men, Revelations, Every Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

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  Motivational, World, Algebra

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