--- title: "23 Waiting Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson" description: "23 Waiting quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Waiting sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_inspirational_wait-and-thy-soul-shall-speak-2709449_2709449.png" --- > [Wait, and thy soul shall speak.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/wait-and-thy-soul-shall-speak/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_inspirational_wait-and-thy-soul-shall-speak-2709449_2709449.png) > [How much of human life is lost in waiting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/how-much-of-human-life-is-lost-in-waiting/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d04/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_human-life_how-much-of-human-life-is-lost-in-waitin_639574.png) > [The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-world-is-all-gates-all-opportunities-strings-of-tension-waiting/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_gates_the-world-is-all-gates-all-opportunities_1413916.png) > [The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-picture-waits-for-my-verdict-it-is-not-to-command-me-but-i-am-to/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebe/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_claims_the-picture-waits-for-my-verdict-it-is-n_171039.png) > [Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/yet-america-is-a-poem-in-our-eyes-its-ample-geography-dazzles-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/387/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_america_yet-america-is-a-poem-in-our-eyes-its-am_1362350.png) > [The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-philosophy-of-waiting-is-sustained-by-all-the-oracles-of-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ced/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_oracles_the-philosophy-of-waiting-is-sustained-b_1917851.png) > [Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/virtue-runs-before-the-muse-and-defies-her-skill-she-is-rapt-and-doth/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ce/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_art_virtue-runs-before-the-muse-and-defies-h_2678198.png) > [The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-experience-of-each-new-age-requires-a-new-confession-and-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/927/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_age_the-experience-of-each-new-age-requires_2897989.png) > [Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/echo-waits-with-art-and-care-and-will-the-faults-of-song-repair/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdc/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_art_echo-waits-with-art-and-care-and-will-th_1981143.png) > [The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-reason-of-idleness-and-of-crime-is-the-deferring-of-our-hopes/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27b/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_crime_the-reason-of-idleness-and-of-crime-is-t_141674.png) > [Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/cupid-is-a-casuist-a-mystic-and-a-cabalist-can-your-lurking-thought/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_all-things_cupid-is-a-casuist-a-mystic-and-a-cabali_2050467.png) > [It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-easy-to-carp-at-colleges-and-the-college-if-he-will-wait-for-it/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b83/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_answers_it-is-easy-to-carp-at-colleges-and-the-c_2938935.png) > [Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nature-forever-puts-a-premium-on-reality-what-is-done-for-effect-is/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b6/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_affection_nature-forever-puts-a-premium-on-reality_2360550.png) > [He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/he-who-has-acquired-the-ability-may-wait-securely-the-occasion-of/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/440/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_ability_he-who-has-acquired-the-ability-may-wait_2688596.jpg) > [Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/wherever-the-invitation-of-men-or-your-own-occasions-lead-you-speak/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/694/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_hope_wherever-the-invitation-of-men-or-your-o_1273189.jpg) > [Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/respect-the-child-wait-and-see-the-new-product-of-nature-nature-loves/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43f/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_analogies_respect-the-child-wait-and-see-the-new-p_504916.png) > [We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-say-that-every-man-is-entitled-to-be-valued-by-his-best-moment-we/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/377/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beautiful_we-say-that-every-man-is-entitled-to-be_2191991.jpg) > [The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-death-of-a-dear-friend-wife-brother-lover-which-seemed-nothing/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ff/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_aspect_the-death-of-a-dear-friend-wife-brother_1329744.jpg) > [Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/eyes-are-bold-as-lions-roving-running-leaping-here-and-there-far-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dae/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_age_eyes-are-bold-as-lions-roving-running-le_1338062.png) > [Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/rude-poets-of-the-tavern-hearth-squandering-your-unquoted-mirth-which/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/729/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_bark_rude-poets-of-the-tavern-hearth-squander_2974714.jpg) > [A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-lady-with-whom-i-was-riding-in-the-forest-said-to-me-that-the-woods/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc9/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_approach_a-lady-with-whom-i-was-riding-in-the-for_497474.png) > [I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-believe-that-our-own-experience-instructs-us-that-the-secret-of/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f7/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_analogies_i-believe-that-our-own-experience-instru_415098.jpg) > [Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/do-not-call-yourself-an-artist-photographer-and-make-artist-painters/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb0/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_art_do-not-call-yourself-an-artist-photograp_3062234.png) ## Other authors on Waiting ## 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/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [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/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [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/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [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/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/waiting/ralph-waldo-emerson/#itemlist", "name": "23 Waiting Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson", "numberOfItems": 23, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Wait, and thy soul shall speak.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/wait-and-thy-soul-shall-speak/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_inspirational_wait-and-thy-soul-shall-speak-2709449_2709449.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_inspirational_wait-and-thy-soul-shall-speak-2709449_2709449.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_inspirational_wait-and-thy-soul-shall-speak-2709449_2709449.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Wait, and thy soul shall speak.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "How much of human life is lost in waiting.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/how-much-of-human-life-is-lost-in-waiting/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d04/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_human-life_how-much-of-human-life-is-lost-in-waitin_639574.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d04/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_human-life_how-much-of-human-life-is-lost-in-waitin_639574.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d04/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_human-life_how-much-of-human-life-is-lost-in-waitin_639574.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“How much of human life is lost in waiting.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-world-is-all-gates-all-opportunities-strings-of-tension-waiting/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_gates_the-world-is-all-gates-all-opportunities_1413916.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_gates_the-world-is-all-gates-all-opportunities_1413916.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_gates_the-world-is-all-gates-all-opportunities_1413916.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The picture waits for my verdict; 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