Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is time to be old To take in sail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
- Ralph Waldo Emerson