Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Courage

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  Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

• Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.292, University of Georgia Press

• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Courage

• A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Men, Being Different

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.309, Harvard University Press

• A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Greatness, Practice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.74, Harvard University Press

• There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Courage, Believe

• What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Perspective, Fearlessness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.271, Penguin

• Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Courage, Ignorance

• Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Courage, Scum

• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

• What a new face courage puts on everything!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Success, Courage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Georgia Press

• Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Courage, Money

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.332, Harvard University Press

• And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Humanity, Individuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.51

• God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Courage, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.242, Рипол Классик

• Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Courage, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3017, Delphi Classics

• It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.134, Harvard University Press

• To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Decide Upon, Soldier

• Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Equality, Problem

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.133, Harvard University Press

• Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Recovery, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.179, Penguin

• Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.15

• Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Peace, Men

• What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Courage, Morning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1909). “Essays and English Traits”

• Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.43, Harvard University Press

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