Famous Quotes

Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• We acquire the strength we have overcome.
• We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
• We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
• We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
• We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
• Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
• Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
• Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
• With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.