Ralph Waldo Emerson Fear Quotes

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every artist was first an amateur.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

- Winston Churchill

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

- Marianne Williamson

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

- Eric Hoffer

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

- Sophocles

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

- Anatole France

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

- Thomas Fuller

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

- Michel de Montaigne

Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; Adversity is not without many comforts and hopes.

- Francis Bacon

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

- Rainer Maria Rilke