Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 


Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
Biography Nationality: American
Type: Poet
Born: May 25, 1803
Died: April 27, 1882