Top 500 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

202. “The language of the street is always strong.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

203. “I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

204. “The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

205. “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

206. “Hitch your wagon to a star.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

207. “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

208. “Culture opens the sense of beauty.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

209. “Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

210. “He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

211. “We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

212. “Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

213. “Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

214. “So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

215. “What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

216. “Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

217. “In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

218. “The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

219. “People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

220. “Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

221. “Desire is possibility seeking expression.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

222. “A man in debt is so far a slave.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

223. “Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

224. “Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

225. “Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

226. “Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

227. “In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

228. “Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

229. “Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

230. “I didn’t find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

231. “Men are what their mothers made them.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

232. “For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

233. “The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

234. “The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

235. “The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

236. “There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

237. “The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

238. “But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

239. “We boil at different degrees.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

240. “Don’t ever give up on something or someone that you can’t go a full day without thinking about.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

241. “We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

242. “The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

243. “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

244. “Moderation in all things, especially moderation.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

245. “Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

246. “In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

247. “There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word...”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

248. “You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

249. “The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They’re mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

250. “Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson