Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."

"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."

"Every artist was first an amateur."

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."

"Beauty without expression is boring."

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."

"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."

"God enters by a private door into every individual."

"Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual."

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."

"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."

"The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom."

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about."

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."

"A great man is always willing to be little."

"The first wealth is health."

"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."

"America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres."

"Science does not know its debt to imagination."

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

"Genius always finds itself a century too early."

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."