Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Fear Quotes

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

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Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

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Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

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I see my trees repair their boughs.

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I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.

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For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

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There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

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Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

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Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

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Man is the dwarf of himself.

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An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

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