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.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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.
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.