Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money often costs too much.
– 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
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always do what you are afraid to do.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
We boil at different degrees.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
– 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
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
– 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
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
Body: A thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.
– 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
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Envy is ignorance.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson