Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage Quotations

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

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

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

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

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

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

Whatever you do, you need courage.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker

You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise

Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

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

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

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

It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

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

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

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

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

What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

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

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.