Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Effort

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Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motivational, Love Is, Effort

"The Art Of Successful Living".

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self, Hands, Effort

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health, Exercise, Effort

The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Perfect, Effort

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.139

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Destiny, Effort, Our Destiny

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.325

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Effort, Bird, Cost

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.163, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education, Effort, Receiving

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.173, Modern Library

We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children, Ideas, Effort

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.61, U of Nebraska Press

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 permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book, Men, Effort

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.158, Penguin

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music, Men, Effort

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3208, Delphi Classics

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Effort, Age

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.193

I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Respect, Boredom, Effort

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.255, Harvard University Press