Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes On Life, Friendship, Success

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Revolutions go not backward.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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