Inspiration Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.”

“Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.”

“Me too thy nobleness has taught”

“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.”

“The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.”

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.”

“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.”

“Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.”

“Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”

“We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.”