Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Acceptance

• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.514, Harvard University Press

• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

• Accept your genius and say what you think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.297, Harvard University Press

• The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acceptance, Heaven, Ships

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.142, University of Georgia Press

• The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acceptance, Silence, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

• Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Growing Up, Believe, Book

  The American Scholar sec. 2 (1837)

• The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Marriage, Acceptance

• Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acceptance, Events, Connections

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.118, Penguin

• Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Acceptance, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.101, Harvard University Press

• The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Work, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.238

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