Emerson Quotes

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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
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
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
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
Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit. — Howard Mumford Jones
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
President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: â€œThat which we persist in doing becomes easier… — Heber J. Grant
"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
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
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
The ancestor of every action is a thought. â€”Ralph Waldo Emerson — David Allen
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
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
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
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
If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every clichÃ© was once a revelation. — Bradford Morrow
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.
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
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
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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