Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson