Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Change

• 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

• Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

• No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Character, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

• The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Change, Recovery

• People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Hope, Self Esteem

  'Essays' (1841) 'Circles'

• The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, World, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.119, Harvard University Press

• We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Change, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

• That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

• We change whether we like it or not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change

• All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Nature, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Рипол Классик

• The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Nature, Spring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1084, Delphi Classics

• The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Nature, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press

• Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Death, Fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.306, University of Missouri Press

• Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Law, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.40, Courier Corporation

• The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Anchors, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

• An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Rivers, Gold

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.177, Penguin

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