Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes On Life, Friendship, Success

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

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

A great man is always willing to be little.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.