--- title: "20 Dare Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson" description: "20 Dare quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Dare sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a8/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_dare_every-man-is-as-lazy-as-he-dares-to-be-3_3212854.png" --- > [Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-man-is-as-lazy-as-he-dares-to-be/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a8/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_dare_every-man-is-as-lazy-as-he-dares-to-be-3_3212854.png) > [For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/for-he-that-feeds-men-serveth-few-he-serves-all-who-dares-be-true/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b36/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_being-true_for-he-that-feeds-men-serveth-few-he-ser_1192685.png) > [Dare to love God without mediator or veil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/dare-to-love-god-without-mediator-or-veil/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1e/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_dare_dare-to-love-god-without-mediator-or-vei_836180.png) > [There is no God dare wrong a worm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-no-god-dare-wrong-a-worm/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab3/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_dare_there-is-no-god-dare-wrong-a-worm-121851_1218510.png) > [Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/do-not-be-too-timid-and-squeamish-about-your-actions/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/747/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_action_do-not-be-too-timid-and-squeamish-about_2032296.png) > [We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-dare-not-trust-our-wit-for-making-our-house-pleasant-to-our-friend/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/539/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_cream_we-dare-not-trust-our-wit-for-making-our_365122.png) > [Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/man-is-timid-and-apologetic-he-is-no-longer-upright-he-dares-not-say/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b6/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_apologetic_man-is-timid-and-apologetic-he-is-no-lon_1269763.jpg) > [Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/insist-on-your-life-never-imitate-do-that-which-is-assigned-to-you/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a6/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_dare_insist-on-your-life-never-imitate-do-tha_2988370.png) > [Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/cupid-is-a-casuist-a-mystic-and-a-cabalist-can-your-lurking-thought/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_all-things_cupid-is-a-casuist-a-mystic-and-a-cabali_2050467.png) > [The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-world-is-nothing-the-man-is-all-in-yourself-is-the-law-of-all/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/594/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_american-scholar_the-world-is-nothing-the-man-is-all-in-y_2495211.jpg) > [Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-me-admonish-you-first-of-all-to-go-alone-to-refuse-the-good/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_admonish_let-me-admonish-you-first-of-all-to-go-a_431753.png) > [Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-us-replace-sentimentalism-by-realism-and-dare-to-uncover-those/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6f/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_dare_let-us-replace-sentimentalism-by-realism_1616956.png) > [Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/spirit-that-made-those-heroes-dare-to-die-and-leave-their-children/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad3/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_children_spirit-that-made-those-heroes-dare-to-di_1048295.png) > [We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-are-never-without-a-pilot-when-we-know-not-how-to-steer-and-dare/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/282/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_accepting_we-are-never-without-a-pilot-when-we-kno_793154.png) > [I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-do-not-know-what-arguments-mean-in-reference-to-any-expression-of-a/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe0/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_argument_i-do-not-know-what-arguments-mean-in-ref_210092.jpg) > [Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/our-religion-vulgarly-stands-on-numbers-of-believers-whenever-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/640/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_appeals_our-religion-vulgarly-stands-on-numbers_2582664.jpg) > [People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/people-are-timid-and-apologetic-they-are-no-longer-upright-they-dare/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b2/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_apologetic_people-are-timid-and-apologetic-they-are_2814938.png) > [Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/is-it-not-manifest-that-our-academic-institutions-should-have-a-wider/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a4/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_academic_is-it-not-manifest-that-our-academic-ins_247941.jpg) > [Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/our-culture-therefore-must-not-omit-the-arming-of-the-man-let-him/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/996/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_absolute-truth_our-culture-therefore-must-not-omit-the_2991251.jpg) > [Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/not-gold-but-only-men-can-makea-people-great-and-strong-men-who-for/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5af/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_brave_not-gold-but-only-men-can-makea-people-g_1293527.png) ## Other authors on Dare ## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson > [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dare/ralph-waldo-emerson/#itemlist", "name": "20 Dare Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-man-is-as-lazy-as-he-dares-to-be/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a8/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_dare_every-man-is-as-lazy-as-he-dares-to-be-3_3212854.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a8/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_dare_every-man-is-as-lazy-as-he-dares-to-be-3_3212854.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a8/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_dare_every-man-is-as-lazy-as-he-dares-to-be-3_3212854.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For he that feeds men serveth few; 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