Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Fear

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  He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

• Always do what you are afraid to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Education, Peace

  'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

• Fear always springs from ignorance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Fear, Spring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.64, Harvard University Press

• 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

• It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

• Knowledge is the antidote to fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tattoo, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

• 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

• Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Witty, Fear, Humorous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.185, Harvard University Press

• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

  Essays "Prudence" (1841)

• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

• Do what you fear and your fear will die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouraging, Fear, Dies

• Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Fear, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.181, Harvard University Press

• They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Fear, Destiny

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.84, Penguin

• To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
  Always do what you are afraid to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Stars, Fear

• Fear is a great instructor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Instructors

• O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Hero, Strikes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays”, p.176, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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

• We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Uneasy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.154

• I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Fear, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.74, Courier Corporation

• If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sex, Fear, What Matters

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.210

• All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Social, Relation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.201, Modern Library

• Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Death, Fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.306, University of Missouri Press

• Fear is cruel and mean.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.130, Harvard University Press

• Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Fear, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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