Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Personality

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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

• 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

• 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

• An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Personality, Healthy, Looks

• A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Character, Men

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

• For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Character, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.399

• The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Wise, True Friend

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Columbia University Press

• Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Personality, Gentleman

• Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1655, Delphi Classics

• If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.505

• It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Volunteer, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Missouri Press

• Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Silence, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.426, Library of America

• There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Exaggeration Is, Personality

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

• The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Fighting, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.279, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Sunset, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.452, Modern Library

• Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Personality, Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.24, Courier Corporation

• A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Personality, Politics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.340, Harvard University Press

• Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Light, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Graphic Arts Books

• The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Jesus, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.288, Cosimo, Inc.

• New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New York, Orange, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.387

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