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
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
Our distrust is very expensive.
Enthusiasm is the engine of success..
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it
Our best thoughts come from others.
Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.