Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insist upon yourself. Be original.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All diseases run into one, old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson