Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Been looking for some motivational and inspiring Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes? These quotes are some of Emerson’s best.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a poet, essayist, and lecturer. Emerson believed in individualism. He was born on May 25, 1882.

When you look closely at his moving quotes you will find that he was a passionate man when using the written word.

There is plenty to admire about Ralph Waldo Emerson's quotes. One of my favorites is when he said, “A great man is always willing to be little.” Profound!

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best, but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great man is always willing to be little.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man in debt is so far a slave.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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