Top 100 Quotes About Ralph

#1. Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

Ralph Marston

#2. Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

Ralph Nader

#5. Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If it isn't fun, why do it?"

Ralph P. Boas Jr.

#6. You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

Ralph Steadman

#7. Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. I think Hillary Clinton is a militarist. She is a political coward. The interesting thing about Hilary Clinton, like Bill Clinton dodging the draft, he never touched the Pentagon - she is in the same position.

Ralph Nader

#12. People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#13. Give the best you have to the highest you know ... and do it now.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#14. Think me not unkind and rude
That I walk alone in grove and glen;
I go to the god of the wood
To fetch his word to men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. The reality is more excellent than the report.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Ralph Ellison

#21. The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us.

Ralph Harper

#22. The pest of society is egotists.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. I've always been conservative. I was born that way.

Ralph Hall

#25. Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

Jared Harris

#28. The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. Our work activities are perhaps most interesting when the element of competition is present.

Ralph Alfred Habas

#31. Fear is cruel and mean.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#33. I'm a boots girl. The most I've ever spent on clothing is a pair of Ralph Lauren boots that go over the knee but can also fold down.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

#34. The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#35. Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states.

Ralph Ellison

#36. There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. I become the transparent eyeball...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#38. But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#39. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#40. The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#41. Be thankful for it all. And beyond your many blessings, will be many, many more.

Ralph Marston

#42. The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#43. OMGOMGOMG she knows about spanners - SHE KNOWS I PICTURED RALPH'S SPANNER
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Diane Messidoro

#44. Every man is a new method.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#45. For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

Ralph Nader

#46. We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#47. To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism ... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#48. I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#49. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

William Ralph Inge

#50. Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at the disposal of the governing class to exploit the public at large for the benefits of its various clienteles.

Ralph Raico

#51. Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#52. Every character in each of my movies is a different side of myself.

Ralph Bakshi

#53. There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#54. There is something in the universe that responds to brave, intrepid thought. The Power that holds and that moves the stars in their courses, fights for the brave and the upright. Courage has power and magic in it.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#55. The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#56. Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#57. Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

Ralph Fiennes

#58. Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

Ralph Richardson

#59. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#60. You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.

Ralph Fletcher

#61. Our expenses are all for conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#62. There is no knowledge that is not power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#63. Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#64. There is always a best way of doing everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#65. In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#66. But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#67. Greatness comes from living with purpose and passion.

Ralph Marston

#68. I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

Ralph Kiner

#69. Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#70. It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#71. It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#72. The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#73. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#74. God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#75. After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#76. As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#77. I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.

Ralph Ellison

#78. Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

William Ralph Inge

#79. The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

Ralph Nader

#80. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#81. Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.

Ralph Bakshi

#82. Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#83. God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#84. All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#85. Ability without honor has no value.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#86. The dice of God are always loaded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#87. I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a job in a shoe store, sell real estate, or what? I was really depressed by the whole thing, because I felt like a painter, yet I couldn't make paintings.

Ralph Goings

#88. It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#89. Music causes us to think eloquently.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#90. Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law ... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#91. Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#92. Two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall
dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.

William Ralph Inge

#93. That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these [158] have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces we are disconcerted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#94. The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.

Ralph Ellison

#95. Cunning is strength withheld.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#96. As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

Ralph Fiennes

#97. Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.

Ralph Marston

#98. The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#99. You gather apples in the sunshine, or make hay, or

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#100. As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.

Ralph Adams Cram

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