Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 4

• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.56, Harvard University Press

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• Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The American Scholar". Ralph Waldo Emerson's Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, emersoncentral.com. August 31, 1837.

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• Insist upon yourself. Be original.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creating, Funny Basketball, Originality

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• The years teach much which the days never know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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• Earth laughs in flowers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Happiness, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Coward, Made, Certain

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• If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Night, Stars, Farewell

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• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Optimistic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3101, Delphi Classics

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• What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Communication

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• Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Attitude, Hard Times

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• Humility is the secret of the wise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Humility, Secret

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• Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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• Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Greatness, Use

  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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• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.514, Harvard University Press

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• Your genuine action will explain itself, and
  will explain your other genuine actions.
  Your conformity explains nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Action, Conformity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Independent, Sacrifice, Men

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• Every wall is a door.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Wall, Attitude

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• The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Congratulations, Enthusiasm, Engines

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