Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 4

• Your genuine action will explain itself, and
  will explain your other genuine actions.
  Your conformity explains nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Action, Conformity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.60, Penguin

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• When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Independent, Sacrifice, Men

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• Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Healing, I Hate You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• 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

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• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, New Day

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• The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opposites, Different, Crowds

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• Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, People, Research

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• Insist upon yourself. Be original.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creating, Funny Basketball, Originality

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• Every wall is a door.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Wall, Attitude

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• What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Carpe Diem, Half

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• Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Fear, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.181, Harvard University Press

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Men, Law

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• If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, World, Sticks

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• Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Hypocrisy, Moral

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• When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rooms, Happy Person, Lit

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• Eyes...They speak all languages.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Language, Speak

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• Always do what you are afraid to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Education, Peace

  'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

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• We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Healing, Animal, Moon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.340, University of Georgia Press

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