Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
- Ralph Waldo Emerson