Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

“A man is known by the books he reads.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Imitation is suicide.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take Each Day As It Comes

Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be not the slave of your own past

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“Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson