Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

• 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 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Heart, Optimistic

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• 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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• 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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• Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silly, Laughing, Be Kind

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Hilarious, Dream

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  Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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  Inspirational, Positive, Worry

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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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• Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Liberty, Should, Please

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• Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Spiritual

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• Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

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  Heaven, Half, Might

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• The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.60, Penguin

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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stupid, Power, Men

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• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, New Day

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• The years in your life
  are less important
  than the life in your years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Important

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• People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude, Grateful, People

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• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Attitude, I Hate You

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• Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, People, Made

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

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  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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• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

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• Lose yourself in nature and find peace

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Environment, Finding Peace

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