Top 25 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson of 4214 - Page 20

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

Running, Hero, Men

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, Life, Courage

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excellence, Outstanding, Accomplish

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children, Heart, Grandparent

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.276, Penguin

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Light, Discovery, Shed

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Men, Being Different

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

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning, Self, Study

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations”

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 imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, Imagination, Fantasy

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Communication, Say Anything, Use

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.435, Рипол Классик

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Faith, Religious

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.60, U of Nebraska Press

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Limits, Influence, Being Human

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.429, Harvard University Press

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self Reliance, Theory, Aim

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.2

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

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Suicide, Truth, Honesty

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.318, Harvard University Press

Language is the archives of history.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

History, Historical, Archives

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.457, Library of America

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Life Is, Surface

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.96, Coyote Canyon Press

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Lazy, Laziness

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth, Real, People

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morality, Intimate, Intellect

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.400

Character is that which can do without success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success, Character, Humility

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Tragedy, Frugality

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.18, Harvard University Press

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace, Real, War

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dream, Time, Coffee

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.284