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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Strength

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

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)

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Strength, Success
"The American Scholar". Ralph Waldo Emerson's Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, emersoncentral.com. August 31, 1837.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Strength, Encouragement
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Rooms, Force

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Strength, Encouraging
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Strong, Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.468

Cunning is strength withheld.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Cunning

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Wise, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1230, Delphi Classics

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Strength, Best Husband

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Strong, Believe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.432

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Solitude, Solitary
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.347, Рипол Классик

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Inspiration, Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1299, Delphi Classics

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Strong, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Essays: First Series”, p.216

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