Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Always do what you are afraid to do.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational Courage Live Life Motivational About Life

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity Short Motivational Short About Life Taking Action

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.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life Meaning Make A Difference Motivational About Life

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness Goal Deep About Life Positive Life

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Short About Life Self-Realization Deep Being Yourself

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love Life Couple I Love You for Her Romantic for Her

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Encouraging for Students Teacher

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Short About Life Wisdom Appreciation Simple Life

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emotional Short Inspiring Motivational About Life Moving On

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conservatives and Progressives. These two parties, which divide our government – and every other government – have been fighting for control of the world from the very beginning. History is the chronicle of their battles: between nobles and commoners, rulers and rebels, old traditions and new ideas, the rich and the poor. As the world turns, one side gets the upper hand, then the other, and back again. Only the names change.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Abundance is not a result you create. It is an existing state you recognize. We ask for long life, but ’tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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