“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world." by Ralph Waldo Emerson?

Ralph Waldo Emerson 727

American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

Related quotes

“What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?”

Douglas Coupland Microserfs

Microserfs (1995)

“A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman book His Religion and Hers

His Religion and Hers, (1923).

“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

“A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist

“There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.”

Sue Townsend (1946–2014) English writer and humorist

Source: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Letter to Isham Reavis (5 November 1855)
1850s
Context: If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

“The things that people do cannot under any conditions be more important than the world. And thus a warrior treats the world as an endless mystery and what people do as an endless folly.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)