Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Appreciation, Children, Successful

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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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  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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• What you are comes to you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Law Of Attraction, Self Pity

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, World, Algebra

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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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• Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Men, Law

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• Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Attitude, Hard Times

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• Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

  124 Copy quote

• Nothing external to you has any power over you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Powerful, Caring

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  Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Learning, Adversity

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• Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thankful

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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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• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. 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

  Learning, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Broadview Press

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• Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Something New

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• For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Memories, Twilight

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