Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

561 Famous Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
Action Quotes
“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire”
Art Quotes
“Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.”
Beauty Quotes
“Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends.”
Change Quotes
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
Doing your best Quotes
“The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.”
Gifts Quotes
“Fear always springs from ignorance”
Ignorance Quotes
“Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'”
Kindness Quotes
“We must be our own before we can be another's.”
Mankind Quotes
“We are wiser than we know.”
Mankind Quotes
“When it is darkest, men see the stars.”
Mankind Quotes
“A man is related to all nature.”
Nature Quotes
“Make yourself necessary to somebody.”
Needs Quotes
“Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.”
Religion Quotes
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one”
Virtue Quotes
“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
Vision Quotes
“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
Achievement Quotes
“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”
Action Quotes
“To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage”
Action Quotes
“To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.”
Adulthood Quotes
“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
Age Quotes
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Anger Quotes
“Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.”
Art Quotes
“There is properly no history; only biography”
Biography Quotes
“I can find my biography in every fable that I read”
Biography Quotes