Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. Always do what you are afraid to do.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson