Top 35 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes


Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.


If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

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

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.


Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you, you have to win it.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.


The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

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