Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes and its meanings

All diseases run into one, old age.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Every artist was first an amateur.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

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

Beauty without expression is boring.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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

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.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

A friend is a person with whom I may be honest. Before him, I may think aloud.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

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

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

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

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

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.

The years teach much which the days never know.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

The first wealth is health.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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

With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

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.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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

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

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

The first wealth is health.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

All mankind love a lover.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Men are what their mothers made them.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Money often costs too much.

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

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

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

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

A friend is a person with whom I may be honest. Before him, I may think aloud.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

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

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

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

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.