Emerson Quotes
68 quotes by 51 authors
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I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't win, but Felicity won, and…
— Teri Hatcher
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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty…
— James Hillman
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you.…
— Hector Elizondo
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Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
— Howard Mumford Jones
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I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.
— Herman Melville
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President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier…
— Heber J. Grant
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"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its…
— Emma Goldman
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Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas…
— Leon Edel
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India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as…
— Lin Yutang
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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
— David Allen
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To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and as Ralph Waldo Emerson…
— Jim Valvano
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Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more…
— Stan Getz
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Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication…
— Story Musgrave
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To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.
— Bradford Morrow
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In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God.
— Ernest Holmes
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The most wonderful inspirational chemistry we can use on another is the gift of our love and acceptance. Devoted and unquestioned love has a magic…
— Wilferd Peterson
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Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of…
— Harold Bloom
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