Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

No one has to be taught to trust in themselves. No one has to be taught that what you experience inside yourself is more authoritative than what comes to you externally, even if it comes from God. Since the Fall, it has been part of our character to look within ourselves.

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

Trusting your gut is always the best thing - no matter what people around you insist you should be doing or saying or thinking. Only you know and once you live in truth, your heart is completely free.

You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you.

A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.

I know what's best for me, and I want to do things my way. So, now I listen to my inner voice and my heart - and that's how I make my decisions.

Most things come from inside; they're intuitive. That's the way I am.

I really think it's important that you not listen to so many fads; you really need to find what works for you.

And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don't entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. BE YOURSELF! Any number of great men have told you that.

Trusting yourself is trusting the wisdom that created you.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.

Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.

Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.