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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Life, Happiness and the Path to Success

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Whether you’re just starting out in your career or you’re looking for ways to live a more fulfilling life, these quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson will help you strive to be your best. Here are some of our favorite Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes about happiness and success. Let’s get started!

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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most renowned and respected American authors and thinkers of all time.

He was a philosopher and essayist who is best known for his teachings on self-reliance, individualism and the need for spiritual values in society. Emerson’s essays and poems have been quoted by countless people over the years. His words are both insightful and thought-provoking, and his thoughts on life, love, happiness, and success continue to resonate with people to this day.

If you’re looking for some motivation or wisdom, look no further. Here’s a list of some of the most memorable Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes about life, happiness and the path to success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

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Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth’s beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don’t worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. 

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Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.

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

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

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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. 

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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For each thorn, there’s a rosebud… For each twilight – a dawn… For each trial – the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud – a rainbow… For each shadow – the sun… For each parting – sweet memories when sorrow is done.

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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We don’t grow old.  When we cease to grow, we become old.

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To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members.

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Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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Always do what you are afraid to do. 

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

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A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. 

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

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In the woods we return to reason and faith.

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Hitch your wagon to a star.

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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

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Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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Love is the essence of God.

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The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

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The cheapness of man is every day’s tragedy.

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

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What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

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Nature hates calculators.

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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

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Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle…is another riddle.

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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

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Every great man is unique.

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The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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The soul circumscribes all things.

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The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

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Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else’s head?

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Is it so bad, then, 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. To be great is to be misunderstood.

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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

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Your genuine action will explain itself, and

will explain your other genuine actions.

Your conformity explains nothing.

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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If a man’s eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

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

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it… tomorrow is a new day.

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People only see what they are prepared to see.

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Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

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The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.

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Our strength grows out of our weakness.

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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

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When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

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Lose yourself in nature and find peace.

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One idea lights a thousand candles.

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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One’s enough.

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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

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We must be our own before we can be another’s.

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is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.

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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

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It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past.

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Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

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Be not the slave of your own past.

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I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

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The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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God enters by a private door into every individual.

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The first wealth is health.

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The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

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Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. ‘Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

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Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

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Life is a festival only to the wise.

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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

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The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

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Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

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Love is like wildflowers; ; It’s often found in… 

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It’s often found in the most unlikely places.

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

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The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

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Fear always springs from ignorance.

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Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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

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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men – that is genius…Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist… What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think…Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue.

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

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There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

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

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

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A great man is always willing to be little.

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Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don’t follow through.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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Love, and you shall be loved.

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I’m not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

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Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.

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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

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Sorrow makes us all children again.

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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

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Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day … is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

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Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

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

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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

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Standing on the bare ground,–my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,–all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

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

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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

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It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.

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To be great is to be misunderstood.

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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

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You become what you think about all day long.

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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

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Do what you fear and your fear will die. 

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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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How much of human life is lost in waiting.

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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

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I do not wish more external goods, — neither possessions, nor honors, nor powers, nor persons. The gain is apparent; the tax is certain.

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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

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All the good of nature is the soul’s, and may be had, if paid for in nature’s lawful coin, that is, by labor which the heart and the head allow.

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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves.

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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

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Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parting Words

Emerson’s words continue to resonate with people today, more than 150 years after he first wrote them, because they offer a simple yet insightful perspective on life and happiness. By taking the time to find our own path in life and by being true to ourselves, we can all achieve success – whatever that means for each of us.

What is your favorite Ralph Waldo Emerson quote? Leave a comment and let us know.

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Originally Published: November 14, 2022

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