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title: "58 Needs Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson"
description: "58 Needs quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Needs sayings from other authors."
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> [We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-all-need-someone-who-can-help-us-do-what-we-already-can/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Whatever you do, you need courage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/whatever-you-do-you-need-courage/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-man-in-his-lifetime-needs-to-thank-his-faults/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [If you want a friend you need to be a friend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-you-want-a-friend-you-need-to-be-a-friend/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/as-long-as-any-man-exists-there-is-some-need-of-him/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-powers-of-the-soul-are-commensurate-with-its-needs/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/all-are-needed-by-each-one-nothing-is-fair-or-good-alone/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-complete-man-should-need-no-auxiliaries-to-his-personal-presence/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-grizzle-every-day-i-see-no-need-of-it-whilst-we-converse-with-what/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-need-for-a-rational-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-small-minds/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-does-not-need-that-a-poem-should-be-long-every-word-was-once-a-poem/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/truth-is-always-present-it-only-needs-to-lift-the-iron-lids-of-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/but-we-need-not-fear-that-we-can-lose-any-thing-by-the-progress-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/give-no-bounties-make-equal-laws-secure-life-and-prosperity-and-you/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-you-visit-your-friend-why-need-you-apologize-for-not-having/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-people-know-that-they-need-in-their-representative-much-more-than/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/masses-are-rude-lame-unmade-pernicious-in-their-demands-and-influence/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/cities-give-not-the-human-senses-room-enough-we-go-out-daily-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/why-needs-a-man-be-rich-why-must-he-have-horses-fine-garments/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/when-there-is-sympathy-there-needs-but-one-wise-man-in-a-company-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-sublime-to-think-and-say-of-another-i-need-never-meet-or-speak/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/art-is-the-need-to-create-but-in-its-essence-immense-and-universal-it/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-wish-to-speak-with-all-respect-of-persons-but-sometimes-i-must/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-heroic-soul-does-not-sell-its-justice-and-its-nobleness-it-does/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-secret-of-fortune-is-joy-in-our-hands-welcome-evermore-to-gods/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-intelligent-have-a-right-over-the-ignorant-namely-the-right-of-2/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-whole-course-of-things-goes-to-teach-us-faith-we-need-only-obey/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-poet-needs-a-ground-in-popular-tradition-on-which-he-may-work-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-the-colleges-were-better-if-they-had-the-power-of-imparting/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/whatever-you-do-you-need-courage-whatever-course-you-decide-upon-2/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-a-class-of-persons-to-whom-by-all-spiritual-affinity-i-am/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/men-are-not-philosophers-but-are-rather-very-foolish-children-who-by/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/what-a-benefit-would-the-american-government-not-yet-relieved-of-its/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/you-need-someone-who-can-inspire-you-to-be-what-you-know-you-can-be/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/what-i-need-is-someone-who-will-make-me-do-what-i-can/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/you-need-not-fear-to-handle-the-truth-roughly-she-is-no-invalid/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-right-eloquence-needs-no-bell-to-call-the-people-together-and-no-2/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/to-map-out-a-course-of-action-and-follow-it-to-an-end-requires-some/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-man-is-a-consumer-and-ought-to-be-a-producer-he-is-by/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/whatever-you-do-you-need-courage-whatever-course-you-decide-upon/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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## Other authors on Needs

## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson

> [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/)

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> [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/)

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> [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/)

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> [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/)

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