241 Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson


The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on best

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on change

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on change

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on courage

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on courage

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

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on death

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on dreams

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on dreams

The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on experience

God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on faith

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on faith

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on faith

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on fear

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on fear

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on fear

The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on fitness

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on freedom

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on freedom

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on friendship