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.'

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and love much to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty. Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world makes way for a man who knows where he is going. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was every achieved without it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do what we can, summer will have its flies. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The April winds are magical and thrill our tuneful frames. The garden-walks are passional to bachelors and dames. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson