Ralph Waldo Emerson

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all boil at different degrees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are wiser than we know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We ask for long life, but ’tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are comes to you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson