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Courage Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

60 Courage quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Being brave means standing up even when others say you’re wrong. Emerson notes that courage often faces criticism, protects peace, and requires persistence beyond the first moment. He also links bravery to freedom, learning, and the willingness to act again.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

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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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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

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

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There is always safety in valor.

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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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

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English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier…

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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

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

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There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this…

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“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by…

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“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads…

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But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the…

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have…

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is…

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The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat…

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I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably…

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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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“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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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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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

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Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

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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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Whatever you do, you need courage.

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Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

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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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