100+ Lost Emerson Quotes: Rare & Inspiring Copywriting Gems

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The power which is at me is new in nature, and none can anticipate my act.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Nature is not fixed but fluid; spirit alters, transforms, raises the universe.

The woods are ever whispering secrets to those who walk in silence.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The sun shines today also; the light which put out our eyes is healing to the soul.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Every moment instructs, and every object, when the soul is willing.

Nature never wears a mean appearance.

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Keep your eyes open to the beauty around you, even when the world seems dark.

Intuition is the spontaneous insight that needs no proof.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

We are born with intuitions; education teaches us to doubt them.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, and… he must accept himself as he is.

Your inner voice knows the truth before the mind finds reasons.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Truth withers if not cherished; intuition dies if not obeyed.

Great acts are made up of small deeds done faithfully by inner guidance.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul.

When we let go of logic, the soul speaks clearly.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear and approve some voice in the silent heart.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children—this is to have succeeded.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances… Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

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

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

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

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The hero sees the crisis where others see only danger.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

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

Friendship demands a constant reciprocity of giving and receiving.

I hate the dude who steals my best friend.

A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

True friendship can afford true knowledge.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Laws and institutions must go down before the sanity and valor of private persons.

The soul's question is, What is true? Not What is useful?

To fill the hour—that is happiness.

Love is the only reality, and it is not a sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

The lover never sees the beloved, but sees only the vision he brings.

Love lights more fires than hatred ever extinguished.

Thou canst not draw love from a sea of gain.

When love puts in its claim, all other claims are relinquished.

Love is stronger than justice.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

We measure love by truth, not by passion.

Affection makes fools of wise men and wise men of fools.

Love requires infinitely less care than jealousy.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Love is the emotion that reveals the eternal.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve in this world.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but these are the shades or effects. It is the root, it is the root!

Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify.

Beware of the pursuit of the Superfluous; it would make slaves of us all.

The man who does not shrink from the simple life will find joy in it.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

The finest gift you can give anyone is your attention.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

The less you need, the more you attract.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

The simplest things are hardest to understand because they are everywhere.

Simplicity is the symbol of the infinite.

Time is a flowing stream, and we are all carried upon its waves.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

The end of all enterprise is the endurance of principle.

There is no chance and no havoc in the events that befall us.

The years teach much which the days never know.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Every day brings a gift, if only we can receive it.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Don’t waste your time on explanations; people only hear what they want to hear.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.

The soul is the organ of destiny.

Spirit is matter reduced to its essence.

The invisible and ungraspable is the real.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity.

The sense of being a spiritual entity with no beginning and no end, limitless, free, and joyful, is the culmination of human evolution.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

We are gods in the ruins.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The first wealth is health.