Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 31

• The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Lying, Character

  The Conduct of Life "Worship" (1860)

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• When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Men, Chance

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Commitment, Focus And Concentration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.339

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• We read often with as much talent as we write.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Writing, Talent

  "The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Fractures well cured make us more strong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strong, Motivation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1832-1834”

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• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Anger, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Appreciate, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.347, Harvard University Press

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• The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Eye, Men

  Address in Divinity College, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.

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• The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blow, Optimism, Shadow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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• Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Over You, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.52, Harvard University Press

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• Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Mistake, Environmental

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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• A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Men, Voice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Georgia Press

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• All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Taste

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Character teaches above our wills.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Teach

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.25, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Heart, Law Of Attraction

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• Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Wells

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.252, Harvard University Press

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• If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Tree, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.47, North Atlantic Books

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• The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perfect, People, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.102, Harvard University Press

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• 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

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• We grant no dukedoms to the few,
  We hold like rights and shall;
  Equal on Sunday in the pew,
  On Monday in the mall.
  For what avail the plough or sail,
  Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Monday, Freedom, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.181, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Pain, Essence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.375

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• Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Antiques, Admiration, Natural

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Way, Manners

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

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