Top 50 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

This is my Top 50 Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
(American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet).

1. "Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well."
2. "Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries."
3. "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
4. "Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."
5. "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
6. "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
7. "You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
8. "It is not length of life, but depth of life."
9. "For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
10. "With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
11. "A great man is always willing to be little."
12. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it."
13. "Every artist was first an amateur."
14. "Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."
15. "There is an optical illusion of every person we meet."
16. "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
17. "Nothing external to you has any power over you."
18. "A man is what he thinks about all day long."
19. "Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."
20. "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
21. "Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."
22. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
23. "A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."
24. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
25. "We must be our own before we can be another's."
26. "We are always getting ready to live but never living."
27. "The faith that stands on authority is not faith."
28. "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."
29. "Beauty without expression is boring."
30. "We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state."
31. "It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that counts."
32. "Cause and effect are two sides of one fact."
33. "We gain the strength of the temptation we resist."
34. "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
35. "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
36. "Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."
37. "The earth laughs in flowers."
38. "Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men."
39. "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
40. "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle."
41. "An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
42. "Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get."
43. "Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."
44. "The years teach much which the days never know."
45. "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
46. "As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile."
47. "God enters by a private door into every individual."
48. "Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
49. "Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
50. "Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact."

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