Ralph Waldo Quotes
22 quotes by 14 authors
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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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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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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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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as…
— Robert Benchley
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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]
— John Muir
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
— Jim Harrison
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night,…
— Paul Hawken
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When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t…
— Andy Warhol
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The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
— Karen Duffy
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
— Rainn Wilson
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Aroha Janet
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson One problem with gazing too frequently into…
— Michael Cibenko
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The only way to have a friend is to be one. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Ralph Waldo Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 22 Ralph Waldo Quotes as follows: