Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson- "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."


Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great man is always willing to be little.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are comes to you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every wall is a door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “always do what you are afraid to do.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first wealth is health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson