"he who should inspire and lead his..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“Every man alone is sincere.At the entrance of a second person,hypocrisy begins.We parry and fend the approachof our fellow-man by compliments,by gossip, by amusements, by affairs.We cover up our thought from himunder a hundred folds.”
“Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.”
More on Leadership
“But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.”
“Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.”
“A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.”