Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Beauty without expression tires.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

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

The never-ending task of self improvement.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we will not find it.

Earth laughs in flowers.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.

A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

The years teach much the days never know.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

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