Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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• You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspire, Needs, Knows

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• Ability without honor has no value.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honor, Ability, Values

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• Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ambition, Pride, Envy

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• The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Serenity, Aim

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.185

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• There is more in every person's soul than we think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Soul, Persons

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• What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Done, Literature, Ill

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.267, Harvard University Press

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• I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Believe, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.294, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Smile, Confidence, Patience

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  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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Heart, Optimistic

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• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Adversity, Hard Times

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• Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Appreciation, Children, Successful

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• A friend is the hope of the heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.507, Library of America

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, People, Made

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• I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Hilarious, Dream

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  Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Worry

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• Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

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• Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Something New

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• People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude, Grateful, People

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• To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
  Always do what you are afraid to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Stars, Fear

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• A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nice, Cute Friendship, Behind Your Back

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  Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Dream, Mistake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.206, Harvard University Press

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• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Forgiveness

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