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Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“This time, like all times, is a very good time - if we but know what to do with it”
Source: Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
Source: Early Lectures: 1838-1842
Source: A Year with Emerson: A Daybook
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“The world belongs to the energetic.”
Source: Letters and Social Aims
“Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
“Self-trust is the first secret of success.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
Source: The Conduct of Life
Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims
“We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.”
“Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.”
“Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862
“No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.”
“We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?”
Source: The Heart of Emerson's Journals
“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”
Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays
“Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow”
Source: Early Lectures: 1838-1842
“Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.”
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
Source: Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed