Hope Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is the hope of the heart.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled: only…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let…

— 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…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fear and hope are alike beneath it. There is somewhat low even in hope. In the hour of vision, there is nothing…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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