Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Worry

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  Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Worry

• Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Attitude, Hard Times

• Fear always springs from ignorance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Fear, Spring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.64, Harvard University Press

• The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Worry, Soul

• To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
  Always do what you are afraid to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Stars, Fear

• As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Work, Greatness

• Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Simple, Worry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Essays”, p.118

• Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Worry, Hundred

  Representative Men "Montaigne; or the Skeptic" (1850)

• One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Heart, Years

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