Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes On Life, Friendship, Success

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

All diseases run into one, old age.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

What is a weed? . A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.