"Not in his goals but in his transitions,…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
A little praise goes a great ways.

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More Dance Quotes

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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of… — Fred Astaire
Disco is just jitterbug. — Fred Astaire
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how… — Margaret Atwood
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the… — George Balanchine
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The more injuries you get, the smarter you get. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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