Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Vocation

• Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Talent, Mankind

• Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Men, Space

• Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Talent, Vocation, Persons

• Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Taken, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.218, Modern Library

• Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.152, Harvard University Press

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