Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes And Sayings

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“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A great man is always willing to be little.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every artist was first an amateur.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”
– 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

“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in ones own sunshine.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You become what you think about all day long.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is a time in every mans education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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