Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson sayings, and Ralph Waldo Emerson proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. Ralph Waldo Emerson
This time, like all times, is a very good time - if we but know what to do with it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of persecution is a history of endeavor to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The street is full of humiliations to the proud. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever limits us, we call fate. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The language of the street is always strong. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The street is full of humiliations to the proud. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you do you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there will always be someone to tell you that you are wrong. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality. Ralph Waldo Emerson