Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is cruel and mean.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson