Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes | 6

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

From Washington, proverbially 'the city of distances,' through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 
 

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 

Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 








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