Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

America is another name for opportunity.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Children are all foreigners.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Money often costs too much.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

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

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.