Ralph Waldo Quotes

Ralph Waldo Quote of the day

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other reading.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

The dull pray

The only reward of virtue is virtue

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon

Truth is the summit of being

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable, " said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson.""Lake and Palmer?""Ralph and Waldo.

Me too thy nobleness has taughtTo master my despair

Trust men and they will be true to you

Tomorrow is a new day

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in