Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Our best thoughts come from others.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

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

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

All mankind love a lover.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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

Nature hates calculators.

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

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.