All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Courage”

“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
“Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.”
“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”
“What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”
“Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.”
“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”
“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.”
“And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.”
“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”
“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.”
“To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.”
“Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.”
“Valor consists in the power of self recovery.”
“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.”
“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?”

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