Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always do what you are afraid to do.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We boil at different degrees.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson