Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet.
拉爾夫·沃爾多·愛默生（Ralph Waldo Emerson，1803年－1882年），生於波士頓，美國思想家、文學家。
1394. The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without. 中文 / Chinese：
好消息是那一刻當你決定你所知道的比你己相信的重要時，你會在追求富裕更上一層。成功來自於內裡，而不是外面。
1395. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. 中文 / Chinese：
做你恐懼的事，恐懼的消滅就肯定了。
1396. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. 中文 / Chinese：
除了你自己，沒有任何東西可以帶給你平靜。除了原則的勝利，沒有任何東西可以帶給你平靜。
1397. Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours. 中文 / Chinese：
當心你的心放在甚麼。因為它肯定會是你的。
1398. We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. 中文 / Chinese：
我們是言詞的學生：我們要在學校，大學，教室閉嘴，整整十或十五年，然後帶著一袋子風，言詞的記憶離開，甚麼也不知道。
1399. It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. 中文 / Chinese：
這是其中一個漂亮生命的補償沒有人可以真誠的嘗試幫別人而不幫自己。
1400. Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. 中文 / Chinese：
不要被你的問題推行。讓你的夢帶領。
1363. Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
中文 / Chinese：
沒有野心人不會開始任何事情。沒有工作就沒有事情完成。獎品不會送過來，你要贏取它。
1364. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
中文 / Chinese：
沒有熱誠，偉大的事從沒成就過。
1365. If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
中文 / Chinese：
如果我們遇見罕見高智力的人，我們應當問他讀過甚麼書。
1366. Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
中文 / Chinese：
對你的行動不要太羞怯和易受驚。人生就是實驗。越多實驗你做得越好。
1367. People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
中文 / Chinese：
人們似乎不意識到他們對世界的意見也是自己性格的告解。
1368. You become what you think about all day long.
中文 / Chinese：
你整天想甚麼你就變成甚麼。
1369. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
中文 / Chinese：
快樂像香水一樣，你不能噴在別人身上而自己不沾上一點。
1370. It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
中文 / Chinese：
為別人生活很容易，每人都會。我號召你為你自己而生活。
1343. Always do what you are afraid to do. 中文 / Chinese：
永遠做你恐怕做的事。
1344. I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. 中文 / Chinese：
跟我吃過的餐一樣，我記不起我讀過的書；雖然如此，它們製造了我。
1345. Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. 中文 / Chinese：
做什麼你都需要勇氣。不論你決定甚麼，總會有人說你做錯。冒起的困難總會引誘你相信批評你的人是對的。要策劃一連串行動然後堅持到底需要士兵一樣的勇氣。和平總會勝利，但它需要勇敢的男人和女人去贏取它。
1346. 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. 中文 / Chinese：
隨著世界觀去生活是容易的；隨著孤獨自我去生活是容易的；但偉人可以在群眾中保持著完美的自我獨立性。
1347. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. 中文 / Chinese：
唯一你註定成為的人是你決定的。
1277. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. 中文 / Chinese：
當你做了決定，宇宙會協力令它發生。
1278. Every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him. 中文 / Chinese：
每一個我遇見的人在某方面都比我強，所以我向他學習。
1279. Love, and you shall be loved. 中文 / Chinese：
愛，你就會被愛。
1280. Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. 中文 / Chinese：
膚淺的人相信運氣或際遇。堅強的人相信起因和結果。
1281. Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. 中文 / Chinese：
養成對任何發生在你身上的好事感恩，和不停表示感激。因為一切事情促使你進步，你應當包括所有事情在你的謝意裡。
1282. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays. 中文 / Chinese：
完成每一天的事情然後放低。你已經盡力了。無疑有些疏忽和荒唐事混入來；要儘快忘記它。明天是新的一天；沉著地和適當地開始，不要被舊的荒唐事拖累。今天所有都是好和公平的。浪費充滿盼望的一刻在昨天實在太貴重了。
1239. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. 中文 / Chinese：
不要跟著道路走，向沒有道路的方向走和留下足跡。
1240. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. 中文 / Chinese：
在一個不斷地嘗試令你成為別人的世界裡，你可以做你自己是最大的成就。
1241. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. 中文 / Chinese：
相比什麼在我們內裡，什麼在我們後面和前面都是小事情。
1242. To be great is to be misunderstood. 中文 / Chinese：
成為一個偉大的人會被誤解。
1243. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. 中文 / Chinese：
除非你嘗試做一些你已經精通以外的事，你永遠不會成長。
1244. The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. 中文 / Chinese：
當思想被一個新構思伸展，它永不會回到它原本的尺度。
1245. Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting… Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. 中文 / Chinese：
從不失去看見任何美麗事物的機會；因為美麗是上帝的書法... 歡迎每一個美麗的面孔，每一片美麗的天空，每一朵美麗的花朵，還有感謝上帝這個祝福。
280. For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. 中文 / Chinese：
每一分鐘的憤怒，你放棄了六十秒的平靜。
281. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. 中文 / Chinese：
接受自然的步伐：她的奧秘是耐性。
282. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. 中文 / Chinese：
銘記在心：”每一天是年中最好的一天。”
283. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. 中文 / Chinese：
最大的榮耀不是從不失敗，是每一次失敗都能夠爬起來。
284. Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. 中文 / Chinese：
恐懼擊倒的人數遠比世界上任何東西更多。
285. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. 中文 / Chinese：
沒有每天克服一些恐懼的人不算學習到生命的奧秘。
286. A man in debt is so far a slave. 中文 / Chinese：
一個欠債的人等同一名奴隸。
287. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. 中文 / Chinese：
你錯過每一樣東西，你已經得著了另外一些，同樣地，你得著的每一樣東西，你會失去另外一些。
