Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Everybody comes to the planet with certain gifts. It may be writing, it may be acting, it may be singing, it may be being a lawyer, it may be making a beautiful cabinet, it may be being a spectacular dry cleaner. It could be anything. We all have gifts in different areas.

Discover your divinity, find your unique talent, serve humanity with it.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants.

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.

Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be effected but by one man. Hewho wants help wants everything. True, this is the condition of our weakness, but it can never be the means of our recovery. We must first succeed alone, that we may enjoy our success together.

People who become great leaders are those who take time to reflect every day on the big questions: Who am I? What is my purpose? Who are my heroes in history, mythology, and religion? What are my unique talents and how do I express them? These are the qualities of silent reflection that make a great leader, like Jesus.

Everyone has some natural talent or aptitude in one or more areas. If you can identify those areas you not only will be happier and perform more successfully in that role, but you will also become better paid for that. Our free-market system pays for performance at some point. When you have a natural talent or aptitude, coupled with desire and experience, the result is productivity plus.

Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.

All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization's purpose.

To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities.

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.