Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Excellence

• Every great man is unique.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Unique, Greatness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• There is always a best way of doing everything.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Excellence, Way, Best Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

• Excellence is the new forever.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Learning, Forever

• To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Excellence, Outstanding, Accomplish

• What is excellent,
  As God lives, is permanent;
  Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain,
  Heart's love will meet thee again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Dust, Excellence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.560, Penguin

• It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Men, Rose

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.430

• Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Knowing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1912). “Emerson's Complete Works: Society and solitude”

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