Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Quotations [Page 2]

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

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

No one suspects the days to be gods.

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Every wall is a door.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

The world belongs to the energetic.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Thought is the seed of action.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.