Might Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men exist that there might be greater men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her…

— 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

The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different?…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson