45 Motivational Emily Dickinson Quotes On Success In Life

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a prominent family with strong ties to its community. This Emily Dickinson quotes on death, love, marriage will motivate you.

Best Emily Dickinson Quotes

1. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – And sings the tunes without the words – And never stops at all. ~ Emily Dickinson
2. One step at a time is all it takes to get you there. ~ Emily Dickinson
3. We turn not older with years but newer every day. ~ Emily Dickinson
4. If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things. ~ Emily Dickinson
5. To travel far, there is no better ship than a book. ~ Emily Dickinson
6. Forever is composed of nows. ~ Emily Dickinson
7. “Opinion is a flitting thing
   But Truth outlasts the Sun.” ~ Emily Dickinson
8. Saying nothing… sometimes says the most. ~ Emily Dickinson
9. I dwell in possibility. ~ Emily Dickinson
10. To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~ Emily Dickinson
11. Bring me the sunset in a cup. ~ Emily Dickinson
12. I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it until it begins to shine. ~ Emily Dickinson

13. I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~ Emily Dickinson

14. You don’t have to be a house to be haunted. ~ Emily Dickinson
15. Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. ~ Emily Dickinson
16. Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. ~ Emily Dickinson
17. The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care ~ Emily Dickinson
18. I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still… I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose. ~ Emily Dickinson
19. There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else. ~ Emily Dickinson
20. I am out with lanterns, looking for myself. ~ Emily Dickinson

21. The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee. ~ Emily Dickinson

22. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. ~ Emily Dickinson
23. I have an appetite for silence. ~ Emily Dickinson
24. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. ~ Emily Dickinson
25. Beauty is not caused. It is. ~ Emily Dickinson
26. We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
27. The brain is wider than the sky. ~ Emily Dickinson
28. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. ~ Emily Dickinson

29. Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. ~ Emily Dickinson

30. The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ~ Emily Dickinson
31. You can stay young as long as you learn. ~ Emily Dickinson
32. They might not need me, but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. ~ Emily Dickinson
33. PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to… to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry. ~ Emily Dickinson
34. A wounded deer leaps the highest. ~ Emily Dickinson
35. I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. ~ Emily Dickinson
36. Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes. ~ Emily Dickinson

37. Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ~ Emily Dickinson

38. If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. ~ Emily Dickinson
39. The only Commandment I ever obeyed — ‘Consider the Lilies. ~ Emily Dickinson
40. Fortune befriends the bold. ~ Emily Dickinson
41. The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. ~ Emily Dickinson
42. That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. ~ Emily Dickinson
43. Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself. ~ Emily Dickinson
44. I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me. ~ Emily Dickinson
45. Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. ~ Emily Dickinson

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