Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 17

• Real action is in silent moments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Silence, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Business, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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• What we call results are beginnings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Perspective, Results

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.49

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• Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Men, Soul

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• A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Love You, Heart

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• Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dance, Men, Goal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3100, Delphi Classics

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• The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean Girls, Women, Age

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• There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Listening, Guidance, Right Words

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.309, Library of America

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• Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Progress, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.274, Harvard University Press

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• Desire is possibility seeking expression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Desire, Possibility

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• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Sweet, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.143, Modern Library

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• I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Gambling, Risk

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• Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Eternity, Young

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.388, Library of America

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• Common sense is as rare as genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Common Sense, Genius, Serious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.395, Penguin

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• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Mom, Mother

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• Men are respectable only as they respect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Army, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Believe, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.294, Harvard University Press

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• Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Wise, Men

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• Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

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• If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Facts, Window

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• The true philosopher and the true poet are one,
  and a beauty, which is truth,
  and a truth, which is beauty,
  is the aim of both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosopher, Poet, Aim

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.44, Bantam Classics

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• Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Expression, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Attitude, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.69, Harvard University Press

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• Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rude, Individuality, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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