Inspiring Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 3

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"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you"

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark"

"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors"

"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think"

"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing"

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now"

"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom"

"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change"

"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist"

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body"

"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more"

"We are wiser than we know"

"We are symbols, and inhabit symbols"

"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse"

"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state"

"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples"

"We are always getting ready to live but never living"

"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases"

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment"

"To be great is to be misunderstood"

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not"

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

"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching"

"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind"

"We must be our own before we can be another's"

"The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers"

"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods"

"I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons"

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else"

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered"

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great"

"There is a tendency for things to right themselves"

"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society"

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect"

"Nothing external to you has any power over you"

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world"

"Every man I meet is in some way my superior"

"The only way to have a friend is to be one"

"The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?"

"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization"

"The earth laughs in flowers"

"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit"

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn"

"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet"

"The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence"

"The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting"

"The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood"

"The reward of a thing well done is having done it"

"The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom"

"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself"

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