"The power of a man increases steadily..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.”
“No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.”
“Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.”
More on Focus
“If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.”
“As you advance in life, different passions can take the front seat, so for me, business is where my primary focus is right now.”
“Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.”
More on Power
“The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.”
“Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.”
“I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.”