The victories of character are instant, and victories for all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
