Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

Every artist was first an amateur.

Money often costs too much.

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

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

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Nature hates calculators.

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

All mankind love a lover.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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

People only see what they are prepared to see.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Our best thoughts come from others.

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