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Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson 41-80
41 I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
42 We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
43 Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
44 Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
45 A man in debt is so far a slave.
46 The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
47 People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
48 Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
49 Genius always finds itself a century too early.
50 The ancestor of every action is a thought.
51 Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
52 We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
53 It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
54 As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
55 The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
56 What you are comes to you.
57 To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
58 No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
59 Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
60 Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
61 Every artist was first an amateur.
62 People only see what they are prepared to see.
63 This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know that to do with it.
64 When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
65 Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
66 If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
67 Good men must not obey the laws too well.
68 The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
69 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
70 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
71 We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
72 Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
73 The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
74 Every wall is a door.
75 Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
76 The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
77 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
78 Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
79 Children are all foreigners.
80 All mankind love a lover.
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