Top 100 Ralph Waldo Quotes
#1. The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Richard Dawkins
#2. We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mitch Kynock
#3. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Lorenz Font
#4. President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do-not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.'
Heber J. Grant
#5. Every Hero Becomes a Bore at last." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tim O. Casey
#6. Prologue: There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich wanting more, that of the sick, wanting something different, and that of the traveler, who says, "anywhere but here." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mona Simpson
#7. For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other reading.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#8. Ralph Waldo Pickle Chips! I don't know him.
Breehn Burns
#9. He had gone to the higher Sierras ... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]
John Muir
#10. What you are speaks so loudly that I can't hear what you say. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
John C. Maxwell
#11. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Timothy Ferriss
#12. You have just dined," Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, "and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." The
Michael Pollan
#13. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. Some of your hurts you have cured, and the sharpest you've even survived. But what torments of grief you've endured from evils which never arrived - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. Ralph Waldo Emerson thought of weeds as plants whose virtues had not yet been discovered.
Lisa Unger
#16. We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ron Suskind
#17. The task ahead of me is never as great as the Power within me.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Naya H. Jones
#18. What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Catherine E. McLean
#19. Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
Jim Harrison
#20. Ralph Waldo Emerson is believed to have said, "Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Will Bowen
#21. When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'
Howard Zinn
#22. Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
Rainn Wilson
#23. Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher
Marci Shimoff
#25. To be simple is to be great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thom S. Rainer
#26. SLEEP IS NOT, DEATH IS NOT; WHO SEEM TO DIE LIVE. HOUSE YOU WERE BORN IN, FRIENDS OF YOUR SPRING-TIME, OLD MAN AND YOUNG MAID, DAY'S TOIL AND ITS GUERDON, THEY ARE ALL VANISHING, FLEEING TO FABLES, CANNOT BE MOORED. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ransom Riggs
#27. If there is something great in you, it will not appear on your first call. It will not appear and come to you easily, without any work and effort. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Leo Tolstoy
#28. The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it ... -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. Ralph Waldo Emerson could write (in The Conduct of Life, 1860): 'The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.' Mountains
Richard Fortey
#30. Adopt the pace of nature, said Ralph Waldo Emerson. Her secret is patience. Ray
Lisa Unger
#31. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm.
Carmine Gallo
#32. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,' she quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Patricia Cornwell
#33. PIE God enters by a private door, into every individual. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wm. Paul Young
#34. Money often costs too much.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ruskin Bond
#35. Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson
H.W. Brands
#36. I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.
Fredrika Bremer
#37. We are always getting to live, as Ralph Waldo Emerson used to say, but never living. Or as poor Frances learned in the children's story, it is always bread and jam tomorrow, never brad and jam today.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#38. My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
Karen Duffy
#39. Let others be afraid, but the soul is not afraid of anything. It lives according to its own laws. It is bigger than space and older than time. It gives courage against all the misfortunes of life. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Leo Tolstoy
#40. It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset. [speaking about Ralph Waldo Emerson]
John Muir
#41. Don't follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bob Suggs
#42. Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#52. 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.
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#56. Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. 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
#59. In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#61. Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#62. The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#76. 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
#80. Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#82. 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
#83. 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
#85. It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#86. It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#88. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#89. God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#95. 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
#98. It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#100. 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
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