Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Dreams

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  Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

• 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

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

• The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Wall, Home

• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Dream, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, Harvard University Press

• 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

• Hitch your wagon to a star.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Quoted in Moncare D. Conway, The Golden Hour (1862)

• Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

• As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Dream, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.189, Courier Corporation

• Do not follow where the path may lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Travel, Adventure

• The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Running, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.170, Harvard University Press

• A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Dream, Men

  "Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures".

• Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Night, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.199, Penguin

• Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

• Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Action, Good Thoughts

• The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.1

• Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Integrity, Dust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Courage, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3017, Delphi Classics

• It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Past, Doe

• Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Eye, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.313, Library of America

• The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, World, Divinity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

• We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Desire, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.125, Harvard University Press

• A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Littles, Facts

  Lectures and Biographical Sketches The Superlative

• Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Thinking, Agriculture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.97

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