You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile...it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in… — 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
