“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm” and other Quotes by American Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a famous American poet, philosopher and author. Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in May 1803. Emerson died April 27, 1882 in Massachusetts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson is remembered as one thought-leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a talented writer and is often quoted in print and in speeches. We have collected several of his more famous quotations for your enjoyment.
And Now The Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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 endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well — he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist.
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Life is a progress, and not a station.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man’s genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
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