Ralph Waldo Emerson Hope Quotations

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.