Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Defeat

• Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

• We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Garden

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.205

• A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Self, Saint

• To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Blow, Men

• When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Men, Chance

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

• Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Justice, Romance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.245, Harvard University Press

• A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Men, Voice

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

• It is defeat which educates us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Defeat, Educate

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