Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

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

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

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

Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

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

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

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

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

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

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

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.

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

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.

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

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

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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

Always do what you are afraid to do.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

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

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.