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.'

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ocean is a large drop, a drop is a small ocean. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The years teach much what the days never know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
All great natures delight instability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love; obey thy heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air's salubrity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything good is on the highway. 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
When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints, and gods use short and positive speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The flowering of civilization is the finished man—the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power—the gentleman. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman—repose in energy. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are what their mothers made them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no gods, it is because we harbour none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps. He only is rightly immortal, to whom all things are immortal. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-trust is the first secret of success. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. Ralph Waldo Emerson