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“Adopt the pace of nature”: A Collection of Legendary Quotes by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a famous American poet, writer and thinker. He was born in Massachusetts in 1803. Emerson died in 1882 at the age of 78 in Massachusetts.

Emerson is remembered as one leader of the American Transcendentalist movement.

Emerson was a well-regarded writer and orator and is still often quoted in speeches and in print. We have arranged several of his most famous quotations for your pleasure.

A few Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

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

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.

Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

One man’s justice is another’s injustice one man’s beauty another’s ugliness one man’s wisdom another’s folly.

Skill to do comes of doing.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.

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

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