Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Inspirational
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.
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The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
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Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
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Commonsense is the wick of the candle.
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The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.
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It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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