241 Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on success

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on time

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on time

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on time

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on time

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on time

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on time

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on time

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on time

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on travel

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on trust

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on trust

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on trust

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on truth

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on truth

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on truth

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on truth

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on truth

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on war

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on wisdom