Inspiring Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 2

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

"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war"

"A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes"

"For every benefit you receive a tax is levied"

"Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults"

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

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late"

"It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'"

"It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports"

"Men are what their mothers made them"

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same"

"Hitch your wagon to a star"

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year"

"Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?"

"Nothing external to you has any power over you"

"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women"

"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"

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art"

"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons"

"Every hero becomes a bore at last"

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark"

"Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich"

"A man in debt is so far a slave"

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better"

"Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual"

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be"

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

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

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

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep"

"There is always safety in valor"

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

"The earth laughs in flowers"

"All diseases run into one, old age"

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature"

"Earth laughs in flowers"

"Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding"

"Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact"

"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold"

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes"

"Every burned book enlightens the world"

"In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise"

"The highest revelation is that God is in every man"

"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character"

"God enters by a private door into every individual"

"Cause and effect are two sides of one fact"

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

"Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side"

"We acquire the strength we have overcome"

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