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.'

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We acquire the strength we have overcome. Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. Ralph Waldo Emerson
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. Ralph Waldo Emerson
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a happy talent to know how to play. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man is always willing to be little. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money often costs too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a happy talent to know how to play. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some books leave us free and some books make us free. Ralph Waldo Emerson