Ralph Waldo Emerson Positive Quotations

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Power dwells with cheerfulness.

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

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