Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Self Reliance - Page 2

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Please Me, Self Reliance, Wish

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.40

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Soul, Self Reliance, Spirit

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.28, Coyote Canyon Press

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strong, Men, Self Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.142, Harvard University Press

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self Reliance, Break, Should

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.79, Cosimo, Inc.

He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Self Reliance, Doe

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.129, Penguin

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Games, Self Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.132, Harvard University Press

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Past, Soul, Self Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.173, Harvard University Press

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strong, Self Reliance, Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.29, Coyote Canyon Press

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self Reliance, Suffering, Kingdoms

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Father, Writing, Self Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, Harvard University Press

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Animal, Self Reliance, Passionate

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.450, Library of America