Ralph Waldo Emerson Being Quotations

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

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.