Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is not often the worst trait that occasions the loudest outcry. Men complain of their suffering and not of the crime.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do… Build, therefore, your own world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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