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
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
We boil at different degrees.
It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.
Be an opener of doors
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.