Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Action
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim
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Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.
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You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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United States! the ages plead, - Present and Past in under-song, - Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
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This world belongs to the energetic.
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Do not believe that you can possibly escape the reward of your action.