Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Power

• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Adversity, Hard Times

• But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Peace, Power

  "A Year with Emerson: A Daybook".

• Do the thing and you will have the power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Power, Acting

• You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Joy, Said

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.292, Harvard University Press

• The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Change, Recovery

• The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stupid, Power, Men

• Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouraging, Nature, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1003, Library of America

• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Anger, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.134, Harvard University Press

• The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Power, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.10, Penguin

• Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

• Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Power, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1880). “Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

• 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

  Meaningful, Power, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.448, Рипол Классик

• Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Nature, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.137, Courier Corporation

• Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Power, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.55, Courier Corporation

• Power educates the potentate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Educate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Power, Wealth, Illusions”, p.17

• Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Delight, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.84, University of Georgia Press

• The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Power, States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, second series”, p.128, Harvard University Press

• Wherever there is power there is age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.317, Рипол Классик

• There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Thinking, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.231, Penguin

• Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Recovery, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.179, Penguin

• Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Power, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

• All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Historical, Minorities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

• All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Violence, Absence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

• Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.460

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Past, Transition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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