To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Action Quotes, Courage Quotes

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance,...

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance,...

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give...

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give...

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and...

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and...

I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best...

I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best...

A man is a God in ruins.

A man is a God in ruins.

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Every artist was first an amateur.

This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance...

This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance...

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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 do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a...

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a...

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...

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

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

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not...

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not...