Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet.
拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生（Ralph Waldo Emerson，1803年5月25日－1882年4月27日），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：
好消息是那一刻当你决定你所知道的比你己相信的重要时，你会在追求富裕更上一层。成功来自於内里，而不是外面。
1395. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. 中文 / Chinese：
做你恐惧的事，恐惧的消灭就肯定了。
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，没有任何东西可以带给你平静。除了原则的胜利，没有任何东西可以带给你平静。
1397. Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours. 中文 / Chinese：
当心你的心放在甚麽。因为它肯定会是你的。
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：
我们是言词的学生：我们要在学校，大学，教室闭嘴，整整十或十五年，然後带著一袋子风，言词的记忆离开，甚麽也不知道。
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：
这是其中一个漂亮生命的补偿没有人可以真诚的尝试帮别人而不帮自己。
1400. Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. 中文 / Chinese：
不要被你的问题推行。让你的梦带领。
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：
没有野心人不会开始任何事情。没有工作就没有事情完成。奖品不会送过来，你要赢取它。
1364. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
中文 / Chinese：
没有热诚，伟大的事从没成就过。
1365. If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
中文 / Chinese：
如果我们遇见罕见高智力的人，我们应当问他读过甚麽书。
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：
对你的行动不要太羞怯和易受惊。人生就是实验。越多实验你做得越好。
1367. People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
中文 / Chinese：
人们似乎不意识到他们对世界的意见也是自己性格的告解。
1368. You become what you think about all day long.
中文 / Chinese：
你整天想甚麽你就变成甚麽。
1369. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
中文 / Chinese：
快乐像香水一样，你不能喷在别人身上而自己不沾上一点。
1370. It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
中文 / Chinese：
为别人生活很容易，每人都会。我号召你为你自己而生活。
1343. Always do what you are afraid to do. 中文 / Chinese：
永远做你恐怕做的事。
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：
跟我吃过的餐一样，我记不起我读过的书；虽然如此，它们製造了我。
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：
做什麽你都需要勇气。不论你决定甚麽，总会有人说你做错。冒起的困难总会引诱你相信批评你的人是对的。要策划一连串行动然後坚持到底需要士兵一样的勇气。和平总会胜利，但它需要勇敢的男人和女人去赢取它。
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：
随著世界观去生活是容易的；随著孤独自我去生活是容易的；但伟人可以在群众中保持著完美的自我独立性。
1347. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. 中文 / Chinese：
唯一你註定成为的人是你决定的。
1277. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. 中文 / Chinese：
当你做了决定，宇宙会协力令它发生。
1278. Every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him. 中文 / Chinese：
每一个我遇见的人在某方面都比我强，所以我向他学习。
1279. Love, and you shall be loved. 中文 / Chinese：
爱，你就会被爱。
1280. Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. 中文 / Chinese：
肤浅的人相信运气或际遇。坚强的人相信起因和结果。
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：
养成对任何发生在你身上的好事感恩，和不停表示感激。因为一切事情促使你进步，你应当包括所有事情在你的谢意里。
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。你已经尽力了。无疑有些疏忽和荒唐事混入来；要儘快忘记它。明天是新的一天；沉著地和适当地开始，不要被旧的荒唐事拖累。今天所有都是好和公平的。浪费充满盼望的一刻在昨天实在太贵重了。
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，向没有道路的方向走和留下足迹。
1240. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. 中文 / Chinese：
在一个不断地尝试令你成为别人的世界里，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：
相比什麽在我们内里，什麽在我们後面和前面都是小事情。
1242. To be great is to be misunderstood. 中文 / Chinese：
成为一个伟大的人会被误解。
1243. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. 中文 / Chinese：
除非你尝试做一些你已经精通以外的事，你永远不会成长。
1244. The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. 中文 / Chinese：
当思想被一个新构思伸展，它永不会回到它原本的尺度。
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：
从不失去看见任何美丽事物的机会；因为美丽是上帝的书法... 欢迎每一个美丽的面孔，每一片美丽的天空，每一朵美丽的花朵，还有感谢上帝这个祝福。
280. For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. 中文 / Chinese：
每一分钟的愤怒，你放弃了六十秒的平静。
281. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. 中文 / Chinese：
接受自然的步伐：她的奥秘是耐性。
282. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. 中文 / Chinese：
铭记在心：”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：
最大的荣耀不是从不失败，是每一次失败都能够爬起来。
284. Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. 中文 / Chinese：
恐惧击倒的人数远比世界上任何东西更多。
285. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. 中文 / Chinese：
没有每天克服一些恐惧的人不算学习到生命的奥秘。
286. A man in debt is so far a slave. 中文 / Chinese：
一个欠债的人等同一名奴隶。
287. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. 中文 / Chinese：
你错过每一样东西，你已经得著了另外一些，同样地，你得著的每一样东西，你会失去另外一些。
