Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Here was a man of imagination and talent. I Hope you take the lessons in these quotes and apply them to your everyday life.

American poet and philosopher
1803-1882

• RALPH WALDO EMERSON QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
• Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
• Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
• Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
• There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
• Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
• Hitch your wagon to a star.
• The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children ... to leave the world a better place ... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
• The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
• Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect
• Do not believe that you can possibly escape the reward of your action
• A man is made by the books he read
• Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. To-morrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense
• I no more remember the books I have read than the meals I have eaten, but they have made me.
• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment
• This world belongs to the energetic

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