Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson