Top 500 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Every man I meet is in some way my superior.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

252. “We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

255. “Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

257. “Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

258. “The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

259. “The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

260. “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

261. “Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

262. “Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

263. “What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

264. “Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

265. “The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

266. “Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

267. “As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

268. “There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

269. “Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

270. “A man is a god in ruins.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

271. “The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

272. “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

273. “That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

274. “Dare to love God without mediator or veil.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

275. “A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

276. “The dice of God are always loaded.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

277. “For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

278. “Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

279. “No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby – so helpless and so ridiculous.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

280. “The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

281. “It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

282. “Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

283. “Travel is a fools paradise.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

284. “We walk alone in the world.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

285. “A friend is the hope of the heart.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

286. “Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

287. “Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

288. “Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

289. “By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

290. “Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

291. “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

292. “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

293. “The sun shines today also.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

294. “Common sense is as rare as genius.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

295. “Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

296. “Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

297. “The force of character is cumulative.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

298. “Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it’s great proportions.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

299. “Living without Laughing isn’t living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

300. “A day is a miniature eternity.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson