Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Courage
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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
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Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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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?
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Whatever you do, you need courage.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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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.
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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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.
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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
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Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.
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Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
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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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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
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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.
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What a new face courage puts on everything!
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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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.
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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. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
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