Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Victory

• Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Learning, Adversity

• No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Defeated You, Victory, Matter

  "The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

• 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

• The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Giving, Victory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, Harvard University Press

• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Real, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

• Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Achievement, Victory

• 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

• Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Comfort And Joy, Joy, Victory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.53, Harvard University Press

• Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.435

• 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

• The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Victory, Instant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.390

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Peace, Men

• Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Victory, Done

• I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Victory, Defeated, Born

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.228, Harvard University Press

• Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Character, Victory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, Modern Library

• Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Lying, Errors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.92, Courier Corporation

• Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Adversity, Victory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

• Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Men, Victory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

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