Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into...
What lies behind ourselves and what lies ahead of ourselves are small matters compared to what lies within ourselves.
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Our globe seen by God is a transpare...
