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.'

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
How much of human life is lost in waiting? Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the house that shelters a friend. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy will that house be in which the relationships are formed from character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society. Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied Ralph Waldo Emerson
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Ralph Waldo Emerson
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim… The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs. Ralph Waldo Emerson
No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow. Ralph Waldo Emerson