Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 11

• In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, People, Warning

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• Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Genius

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• There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2797, Delphi Classics

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• The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Discovery, Shed

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• There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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• We acquire the strength we have overcome.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Encouraging

  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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• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motherhood, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.115, University of Missouri Press

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• Stand guard at the portal of your mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Portal

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• We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thank You God, Faces, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, North Atlantic Books

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• Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Pet, Sitting

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• You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspire, Needs, Knows

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• Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Needs, Faults

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.145, Penguin

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• The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Integrity, Evil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Nature, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.37, 谷月社

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• Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happy Birthday, Men, Unhappy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.336, Modern Library

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• Do not follow where the path may lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Travel, Adventure

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• One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Innovation, Life Is, Illusion

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• The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Soul, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.57, Library of America

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• The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Blow, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Oratory, Speech, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.340

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• What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, World, Tasks

  Essays "Intellect" (1841)

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• Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Spontaneity, Spontaneous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.148

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• Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Regret, Fall, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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• Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two Sides, Causes, Facts

  Essays Circles

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