Careers Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

8 Careers quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalist tone shines in these brief career reflections, delivering thoughtful, inspirational lines that feel like a quick philosophical pause. This modest set captures his timeless wisdom.

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

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A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps…

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The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds…

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The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or…

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If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

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A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers…

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A little integrity is better than any career.

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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