Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

America is another name for opportunity.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

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.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

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.

Children are all foreigners.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

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

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.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

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.