There is always safety in valor.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining...

Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining...

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

All diseases run into one, old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

The less government we have the better.

The less government we have the better.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is...

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is...

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains...

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains...

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

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

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk...

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk...

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we...

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we...

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made,...

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made,...

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery...

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery...

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that...

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that...