Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

561 Famous Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”
Enthusiasm Quotes
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.”
Experience Quotes
“All life is an experiment.”
Experience Quotes
“Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.”
Fate Quotes
“Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.”
Fear Quotes
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
Fiction Quotes
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Generosity Quotes
“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”
Generosity Quotes
“Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes”
Gifts Quotes
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
Glory Quotes
“Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.”
Grace Quotes
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
Graduation Quotes
“Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it.”
Happiness Quotes
“The first wealth is health.”
Health Quotes
“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue”
Hearing Quotes
“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.”
Horses Quotes
“We all boil at different degrees”
Humanity Quotes
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”
Hypocrisy Quotes
“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant”
Ignorance Quotes
“The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze”
Imagination Quotes
“Imitation is suicide”
Imitation Quotes
“As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world”
Instinct Quotes
“Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason”
Instinct Quotes
“You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both”
Joy Quotes
“Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.”
Judgement Quotes