Love Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

423 Love quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

All Love quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson’s page

Love and you shall be loved. The quotes treat love as a balanced equation, giving equal weight to both sides. They also link love with self‑reliance, suggesting that when you act from love, you feel younger and more connected to the world.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Power is the first good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Do your thing, and I shall know you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

God hides things by putting them near us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

We have more than we use.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Give all to love; Obey thy heart…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

There is always a best way of doing everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

“When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

“The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

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

Image

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

“Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics,…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

Other authors on Love

More by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The order of things consents to virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life only avails, not the having lived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

Ralph Waldo Emerson