Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 24

• What a new face courage puts on everything!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Success, Courage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Georgia Press

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• Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stuff, Made, Earth And Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Guests, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.407

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• It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Light

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• The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Pride, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Lectures and Biographical Sketches”

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• The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Disease, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

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• Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Sight, Cynical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.407

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• Do the thing and you will have the power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Power, Acting

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• Live in the sunshine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.213

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• Fate is unpenetrated causes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Causes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.331

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• The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Men, Generosity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Play, Skills

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• There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Optical Illusions, Transcendentalism, Illusion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.229, Harvard University Press

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• The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Education, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2745, Delphi Classics

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• Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Player, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.350

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• Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Extras

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• Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Political, Voting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.304, Harvard University Press

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• My life is not an apology, but a life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apology, Life Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.24

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• Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Savages, Elements

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.427, Harvard University Press

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• Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, Action

  1850 Representative Men,'Goethe'.

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• What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Desire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.176, Harvard University Press

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• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Peace, War

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• No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cheating

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• How much of human life is lost in waiting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Waiting, Losing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.364, Library of America

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• No man can have society upon his own terms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Society, Term

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.178, Harvard University Press

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