Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1803
CountryUnited States of America
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
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
The world belongs to the energetic.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.
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.
We put our love where we have put our labor.
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
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.