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.'

Life is 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, and each shows only what lies in its focus Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great teacher is not the man who supplies the most facts, but the one in whose presence we become different people. Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mankind love a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a tram of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they proved to be many colored lenses which paint the world in their own hue. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn. Ralph Waldo Emerson
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is,—'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.' Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. 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
Girt in by mountain walls and washed with waterfalls. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is a virtue gone to seed. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force. That thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret in education lies in respecting the student. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have thought that a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever limits us we call fate. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he will have to accept that his life will be radically changed. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
An eye can threaten like a loaded and leveled gun; or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson