Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
