Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Labor

• Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Gambling, Luck

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.282, Library of America

• The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Essays". Volume 2,

• Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Stars, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.437, Harvard University Press

• Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Pain, Essence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.142, Open Road Media

• The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Disease, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

• For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

• Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Exercise, Effort

• It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Intelligent, Competition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1209, Delphi Classics

• Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Men, Vanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.375

• We put our love where we have put our labor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Effort, Our Love, Work Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.161, Harvard University Press

• The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Division Of Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

• There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin

• A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong . . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Powerful, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.309, Library of America

• I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Learning, Sacrifice

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

• Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Genius, Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.93, Penguin

• Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Selfish, Pride

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.191, Read Books Ltd

• Labor is God's education.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Work, Labor

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

• In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Islands

• 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

• It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Men, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1621, Delphi Classics

• The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Choices, Political

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.857, Library of America

• Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heaven, Half, Might

• 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”

• The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Needs, Authorship, Priests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.40, Рипол Классик

• I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.3

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