53 quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

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

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Men are respectable only as they respect.

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A good intention clothes itself with power.

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The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

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Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

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The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...

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What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

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Insist on yourself; never imitate.

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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

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The years teach much which the days never knew.

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

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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

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Man is a piece of the universe made alive

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We are wiser than we know.

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We must be our own before we can be another's.

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