Courage Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

60 Courage quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 60 reflections treat courage as a natural extension of self‑reliance and inner truth. His prose invites readers to see bravery not as a flash of heroism but as a steady, mindful affirmation of one’s own path.

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Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

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Whatever you do, you need courage.

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Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

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Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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There is always safety in valor.

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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage

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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

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There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

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“His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors; Our valors are our best gods.”

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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

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

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The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale…

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Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural…

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As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength…

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“True courage is not ostentatious; men who wish to inspire terror seem thereby to confess themselves cowards. Why do they rely on…

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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for…

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Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals…

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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and…

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The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and…

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.…

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“Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him…

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It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the…

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Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;…

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“So when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, she detaches and sends away from it its poems…

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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine…

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What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a…

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That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our…

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It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of…

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“That law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms, and bodily vigor becomes mental and moral vigor. The bread he eats…

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“Peace has its victories but it takes brave men to win them”

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Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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