Giving Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man should give us a sense of mass.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson