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
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.
Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
One idea lights a thousand candles.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.