Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1803
CountryUnited States of America
The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
Wherever work is done, victory is attained.
The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.
Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.
Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.
Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities