Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Dresses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Wise, Men

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

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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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• 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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• 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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• The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Matter, Speak

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