Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 2

American - Poet May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882 Read full biography

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day Heart Best Every Day New Year's

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motivational Aim Mark Hit

The first wealth is health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health Wealth First

The earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature Flowers Earth Laughs

Beauty without expression is boring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty Boring Expression Without

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mother Great Effort Enthusiasm

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positive Someone Inspire Know Want

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life Flower Tree Live

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life You Better More

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligence Clothes Genius Dressed

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust Me Creator Seen

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time Great Never Glory

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death Great Sun Cold

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prison Tongue Fame Martyr

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Illusion Person Meet Every

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creation Forests Thousand Acorn

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well Done Done Reward Well

Men are what their mothers made them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mom Men Mothers Them

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stars Man Night Years Stare

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship Nature Friend Masterpiece

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man Money Debt Slave

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty Flowers World Proud Ray

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom See Mark Common

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art Artist First Every

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morning Man Evening Body

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consistency Minds Little Foolish

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