Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson sayings, and Ralph Waldo Emerson proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

When friendships are areal, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitant of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, nor time unmake what poets know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors. 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
It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from the path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlor and the cabin. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old. Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A moody child and wildly wise pursued the game with joyful eyes. Which chose, like meteors, their way, and rived the dark with private ray. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. Ralph Waldo Emerson
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poverty consists in feeling poor. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die. Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. Ralph Waldo Emerson
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no mask but he will wear, / He invented oaths to swear, / He paints, he carves, he chants, he prays, / And holds all stars in his embrace, / Godlike, — but 'tis for his fine pelf, / The social quintessence of self. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. Ralph Waldo Emerson