14 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Action

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on action

40. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

68. 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.

71. The ancestor of every action is a thought.

72. Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.

73. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'

100. 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

129. Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

146. We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.

197. You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

202. Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect.

218. United States! the ages plead, - Present and Past in under-song, - Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

220. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

264. This world belongs to the energetic.

288. Do not believe that you can possibly escape the reward of your action.