Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1803
CountryUnited States of America
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.
To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
The primary wisdom is intuition.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Each moment of the year has its own beauty.