Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A believer a mind whose faith is consciousness is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever limits us we call Fate.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The cultivated man wise to know and bold to perform is the end to which nature works.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who loses a day loses life.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king rich man fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson