Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Expectations

• People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Hope, Self Esteem

  'Essays' (1841) 'Circles'

• From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Distance, Cities

• I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.182, Harvard University Press

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