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
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.