Authors:

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 152

All Quotes Acceptance Accomplishment Achievement Acting Addiction Adventure Adversity Affection Age Aids Alcohol Alienation Ambition Anarchy Anger Anxiety Apology Appearance Appreciation Architecture Army Art Astronomy Atheism Atheist Atmosphere Attitude Authority Autumn Awakening Balance Beauty Beer Being Different Being Single Being Yourself Belief Birth Blame Books And Reading Boredom Borrowing Business Caring Challenges Change Chaos Character Charity Childhood Children Choices Christ Christianity Church Civility Coffee College Commitment Common Sense Communication Community Compassion Composition Compromise Concentration Confession Confidence Conflict Conformity Confusion Conscience Consciousness Conspiracy Constitution Contentment Cooking Country Courage Courtship Creation Creative Writing Creativity Crime Criticism Culture Curiosity Cynicism Dancing Darkness Death Defeat Democracy Design Desire Destiny Determination Devil Difficulty Dignity Discipline Diversity Divorce Doom Doubt Drinking Duty Dying Earth Eating Economy Education Effort Elegance Encouragement Encouraging Energy Enthusiasm Environment Envy Epic Equality Eternity Ethics Evidence Evil Evolution Excellence Exercise Experience Failing Failure Faith Fame Family Fashion Fate Fear Feelings Fighting Fitness Flight Focus Food Forgiveness Freedom Friends Friendship Frugality Funeral Funny Future Gardening Gems Generosity Genius Getting Older Giving Giving Up Glory God Gold Good Morning Goodness Gossip Grace Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greek Grief Grieving Growing Up Growth Happiness Hard Times Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Health Heart Heaven Helping Others Heroism History Holiday Home Honesty Honor Hope House Humanity Humility Hunting Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Idealism Identity Ignorance Imagination Imitation Immortality Independence Individualism Individuality Injustice Innovation Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Intuition Jesus Jewelry Journey Joy Judgement Judging Judgment Justice Karma Kindness Knowledge Labor Language Latin Laughter Law Of Attraction Laziness Leadership Learning Leaving Liberty Life Life And Love Listening Literature Live Life Logic Loneliness Losing Loss Love Love Life Loyalty Luck Lying Magic Mankind Manners Marriage Mask Mediocrity Memories Mental Health Military Mindfulness Mom Money Moon Morality Morning Motherhood Motivation Motivational Mountain Muse Music Mythology Nationalism Nature New Beginnings Obedience Office Old Age Opportunity Optimism Originality Overcoming Pain Painting Passion Past Patience Peace Perception Perfection Persecution Perseverance Personality Perspective Philanthropy Philosophy Photography Plato Pleasure Poetry Police Politics Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Poverty Power Praise Prayer Preaching Prejudice Preparation Pride Progress Property Prophet Prosperity Prudence Public Speaking Purity Purpose Quality Rain Reading Reading Books Reality Recovery Redemption Reflection Regret Reincarnation Rejection Religion Reputation Respect Responsibility Revelations Revolution Rhetoric Risk Romance Romantic Love Running Sacrifice Sadness Safety Sailing Salvation Sanity School Science Self Confidence Self Esteem Self Reliance Self Worth Selfishness Serenity Shame Silence Simplicity Sin Sincerity Skepticism Skins Slavery Sleep Sloth Smoking Society Solitude Sorrow Soul Spirituality Sports Spring Stay Strong Strength Struggle Students Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Sunday Sunshine Sympathy Talent Taxes Tea Teaching Teamwork Technology Temptation Thankful Thanksgiving Theology Time Time Management Today Trade Tradition Tragedy Transcendentalism Travel Trust Truth Twilight Understanding Unity Universe Values Victory Violence Virtue Vision Vocation Volunteer Waiting Walking Wall War Water Weakness Wealth Weed Wilderness Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worry Worship Writing Yoga Youth
Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gratitude, Thinking, Situation

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gratitude, Grateful, Heaven

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Life Is, Pleasure
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.335

Do your work, but do your thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work, Purpose, Funny Basketball

Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action, Ancestor

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weed, Home, Sea
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.51, Delphi Classics

Do your thing, and I shall know you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knows
Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jobs, Men, Here And There

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blessing, Christian Inspirational, Thank God

When the night is darkest, the stars come out.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, Night

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Way, Manners, Hardened
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Positive, Girl
Ralph Waldo Emerson (191?). “Society and solitude, Letters and social aims”

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mean, Wind, Overcoming

What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goal, Words You Say, I Can

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moon, Journey, Light
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.39, Harvard University Press

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Ties, Insanity
1876 Letters and Social Aims,'The Comic'.

Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, College, Doors
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.162, David R. Godine Publisher

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Boys, College
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.391

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, College, Thinking

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Order, Racist, Accepting
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.26, Harvard University Press

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Hero, Saint
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Animal, Affection, Caught
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Simple, Simplicity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.256, University of Georgia Press

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Simple, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.6, Courier Corporation

You May Also Like: