Top 500 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

102. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

103. “We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

104. “Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

105. “When you strike at a king, you must kill him.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

106. “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

107. “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

108. “Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

109. “The years teach much the days never know.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

110. “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

111. “Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

112. “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

113. “He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

114. “His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

115. “Lose yourself in nature and find peace.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

116. “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.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

117. “A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

118. “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

119. “Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

120. “The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

121. “The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

122. “Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We’re so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

123. “The world belongs to the energetic.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

124. “Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

125. “We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

126. “The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

127. “A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

128. “Patience and fortitude conquer all things.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

129. “Live, let live, and help live.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

130. “Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

131. “As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

132. “The reward of a thing well done is having done it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

133. “In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

134. “How much of human life is lost in waiting.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

135. “If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

136. “All life is an experiment.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

137. “In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

138. “The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

139. “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

140. “Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

141. “Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

142. “People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

143. “Don’t choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

144. “For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

145. “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

146. “Stand guard at the portal of your mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

147. “Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

148. “Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

149. “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

150. “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson