Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

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

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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

As soon as there is life there is danger.

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

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

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

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

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

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

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Always do what you are afraid to do.