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Work Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
- I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
- 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…
- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor…
- A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast.…
- 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…
- Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.
- 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,…
- The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if…
- Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power…
- Art is the path of the creator to his work.
- Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each…
- Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that;…
- When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that…
- Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
- 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…
- Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby…
- We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will…
- We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and…
- Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
- Wherever work is done, victory is attained.
- It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in…
- But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
- Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.
- 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…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach