Ralph Waldo Emerson Character Quotes

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every artist was first an amateur.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

- Martha Washington

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't become the most successful person that nobody likes.

- Mel Robbins

When someone betrays you, it is a reflection of their character, not yours.

- Anonymous

What you are will show in what you do

- Thomas Edison

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

- George Bernard Shaw

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

- Charles Darwin

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

- Benjamin Franklin