Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My life is not an apology, but a life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our strength grows out of our weakness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson