Ralph Waldo Emerson
459 quotations
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
The walking of Man is falling forwards.
All promise outruns performance.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Our best thoughts come from others.
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Men are respectable only as they respect.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man?s mind.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
The never-ending task of self improvement.