Ralph Waldo Emerson Way Quotations

Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Men in all ways are better than they seem.

Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

A little praise goes a great ways.

The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest