Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Courage

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Suicide, Courage, Ignorance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage, Ideals

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

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage, Men, Animal

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.206, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Courage, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2508, Delphi Classics

Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage, Envy, Brave

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1367, 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

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