Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it is darkest, we can see the stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You become what you think about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson