Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Self Reliance

• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.165, Harvard University Press

• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

• Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Expression, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.35, Courier Corporation

• Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Karma, Peace

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

• Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Thinking, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Heart, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.297, Harvard University Press

• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silly, Science, Political

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Broadview Press

• It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Graduation, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1841) 'Self-Reliance'

• My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apology, Self Reliance, Life Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.131, Harvard University Press

• Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Reality, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.21, Coyote Canyon Press

• No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cheating

• To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Inspiration, Greatness

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

• There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Suicide, Hope

  "Essays: First Series, Self-Reliance". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

• No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Law, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

• The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Pride, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Lectures and Biographical Sketches”

• These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Self, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.42, 谷月社

• A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Light, Self Reliance

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Positivity, Self Reliance

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

• Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Attitude, Positive Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Degrees, Fixture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Graphic Arts Books

• I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Names, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.262, Library of America

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