Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Personality
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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.
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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.
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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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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.
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The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.
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Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.
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Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.
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Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
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A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.
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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
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The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.
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But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.
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