Famous Quotes

Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
• A great man is always willing to be little.
• A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
• A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
• A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
• A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
• All diseases run into one, old age.
• All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
• All mankind love a lover.
• As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
• As soon as there is life there is danger.
• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
• Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
• Beauty without expression is boring.
• Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
• Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
• Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
• Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
• Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
• Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
• Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
• Earth laughs in flowers.
• Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
• Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
• Every artist was first an amateur.