Hero Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hero is suffered to be himself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no true orator who is not a hero.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hero is he who is immovably centered.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tis not important how the hero does this or this, but what he is. What he is will appear in every gesture…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson