"Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel"

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
A little praise goes a great ways.

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More Compel Quotes

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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. — James M. Barrie
It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the… — Bruce Barton
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or… — Thomas Carlyle
To advise is not to compel. — Anton Chekhov
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been… — B R Ambedkar
...we must face the fact that unilateral action on the part of the United States will never be enough to… — Barbara Jordan
When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection… — Unknown Author
In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her… — Adolf Hitler
With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American… — Adolf Hitler
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious… — George Washington
At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are… — Lucretius
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against… — Ayn Rand

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