Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

I think we're all blessed with gifts and I was lucky I just found out what mine was early on and have planted that seed and tried to water it every day.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

We all have a gift; we all have a passion - it's just about finding it and going into it. Being an asset to your family and community.

Until I understand where I am, I can’t get to where I am going. This is the value of a compass when we are out walking or hiking and need to know we’re going in the right direction. But we also have an internal North Star. It’s that little nudge that tells us if we are on the right path to fulfilling our potential, or on the wrong path wasting energy traveling somewhere we don’t need to go. So my advice to you is, pull out that compass every once in a while and make sure you are navigating in the right direction on your journey.

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

To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.

The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.

Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.

Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.

A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

"What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well.

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.

By expressing our unique talents and using them to serve others, we will experience unlimited love, abundance, and true fulfillment in our lives.

To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.