Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
Interpretation
Claiming your rightful place and standing firm in your beliefs encourages others to accept and respect your position.
In this quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that when a person confidently assumes a role or stance that they believe they are entitled to, it compels others to recognize and accept them. This idea illustrates the power of self-assurance and the influence that one's attitude can have in shaping how others respond and interact with them.
In practice
This quote can inspire individuals during leadership training sessions to stand firm in their roles.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You’ll make mistakes along the way, but that’s where growth and forgiveness come in.
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.
"Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times.
The real magic wand is the child's own mind.
What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
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