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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The years teach much which the days never know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.Every burned book enlightens the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first wealth is health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without expression is boring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson