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
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going
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.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.