Top 500 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

52. “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

53. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

54. “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

55. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

56. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

57. “When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

58. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

59. “Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

60. “Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

61. “Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

62. “The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

63. “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

64. “Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

65. “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

66. “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

67. “The first wealth is health.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

68. “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

69. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

70. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

71. “Fear always springs from ignorance.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

72. “We are always getting ready to live but never living.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

73. “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

74. “A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

75. “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

76. “Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

77. “Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

78. “It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

79. “Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

80. “What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

81. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

82. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

83. “The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

84. “Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

85. “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

86. “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

87. “None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

88. “Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

89. “Scatter joy!”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

90. “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

91. “Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

92. “We acquire the strength we have overcome.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

93. “Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

94. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

95. “Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

96. “Beauty without expression is boring.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

97. “All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

98. “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

99. “Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

100. “All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson