Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 15

• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Friendship, Relationship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

  53 Copy quote

• Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Action, Good Thoughts

  54 Copy quote

• Our best thoughts come from others.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility

  20 Copy quote

• We have more than we use.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Use It Or Lose It, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3084, Delphi Classics

  14 Copy quote

• Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Get Well, Health, Noble

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.155, Harvard University Press

  22 Copy quote

• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

  22 Copy quote

• Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Giving

  16 Copy quote

• Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Taken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3128, Delphi Classics

  40 Copy quote

• A great man is always willing to be little.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Spiritual, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

  49 Copy quote

• Every man alone is sincere.
  At the entrance of a second person,
  hypocrisy begins.
  We parry and fend the approach
  of our fellow-man by compliments,
  by gossip, by amusements, by affairs.
  We cover up our thought from him
  under a hundred folds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Gossip, Hypocrisy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics

  27 Copy quote

• Postpone not your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Procrastination

  22 Copy quote

• Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Support, Needs, Manners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.97, Harvard University Press

  27 Copy quote

• Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Greatness, Simplicity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.100, Library of America

  28 Copy quote

• For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  29 Copy quote

• Sorrow makes us all children again -
  destroys all differences of intellect.
  The wisest know nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sad, Children, Condolences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

  20 Copy quote

• It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Men, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.502

  12 Copy quote

• Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Philosophical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

  51 Copy quote

• Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Ambition, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.140, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

• In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thoughtful, Deep Life, Deep Thought

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.71

  8 Copy quote

• Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Law, Individual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.21

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  9 Copy quote

• You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, People, Looks

  15 Copy quote

• With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Time, Moving Forward

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.241, Harvard University Press

  26 Copy quote

• To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Men, Friendly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.5, Courier Corporation

  11 Copy quote

• What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Anorexia, Eating Disorder, Tasks

  7 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Henry David Thoreau

Walt Whitman

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Margaret Fuller

Emily Dickinson

Edgar Allan Poe

Herman Melville

Ralph Ellison