Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Work

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Positive, Work, Greatness

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jobs, Work, Ambition

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Victory, Done

The world belongs to the energetic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Motivational, Work

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.123

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honesty, Work, Writing

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.565, Рипол Классик

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom, Time, Work

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Penguin

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Motivational, Work

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.435

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Work, Path

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.466, Library of America

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Work, Merit

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Mean, Soul

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith, Courage, Work

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.242, Рипол Классик

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Philosophy, Work

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Men, Aptitude

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2514, Delphi Classics

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Men, Soldier

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.54, Library of America

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Hands, Hoe

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.69, Penguin

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Bricks, Divine

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.85, Courier Corporation

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Men, Doe

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

Labor is God's education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education, Work, Labor

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.142, Library of America

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Character, Foolish

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1316, Delphi Classics

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Men, Iron

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.240

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positive, Work, Positivity

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.142, Harvard University Press

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith, Work, Privilege

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.364

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Rewards

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1534, Delphi Classics

If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Men, Balance

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.63, Xist Publishing