Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Quotations [Page 2]

Every wall is a door.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

No one suspects the days to be gods.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.