Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Giving

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

Leadership, Giving, Energy

Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Successful, People, Giving

Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude, Grateful, Giving

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace, Giving, Victory

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, Harvard University Press

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Military, Giving, Obedience

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.298, University of Georgia Press

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophy, Giving, Tree

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Giving, Dollars

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.22, Coyote Canyon Press

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wine, Weather, Giving

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.36, Everyman's Library

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giving Up, Thinking, Giving

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giving, Silence, Personality

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.426, Library of America

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Boys, Giving, Accomplishment

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.406, Рипол Классик

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Drinking, Giving, Feelings

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giving, Theory

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.83, Courier Corporation

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sky, Giving, Mountain

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.43, Penguin

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, Future, Giving

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Feet, Giving

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.365

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giving, Architecture, Melancholy

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.382, Harvard University Press

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sympathy, Men, Giving

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.203

Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religious, Humility, Giving

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.258

Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giving, Judging, Doe

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.237