Ralph Waldo Emerson Promise Quotations

All promise outruns performance.

Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.