All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Defeat”

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! â€” it seems to say, â€” there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”
“A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.”
“To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.”
“When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.”
“It is defeat which educates us.”
“Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”
“A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.”

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