Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Envy is ignorance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Body: A thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, – an open and noble temper.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are other measures of self- respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson