Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Everyone has different talents, different styles and talents.

I believe we're all endowed with a very small set of narrow skills that make us unique. You've got to find what that is. Most often what you truly understand makes you unique is something that you're also going to build passion around.

I can only do what I can do.

We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.

Honestly, I don't think I'm exceptionally pretty or talented. But the advantage I have is that the performances I do can only be done by me.

Don't be afraid to see the gift and talent you have, because that thing could lead to a substantial career for you. Because we all do something as good or better than most people.

I know what I can do and what I can't.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

Sometimes we forget about our own advantages because we focus on what we don't have. Just because you have to work a little harder at something that seems easier to others doesn't mean you're without your own talents.

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

All we need to do is pay attention to ourselves and pay attention when somebody gives you a compliment based on something that you do naturally. Then that lets you know that that's your talent. I mean, talents come in so many different sizes, so many different colors, so many different ways.

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

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.

How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.

A man must know his limitations.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

I stand in my own way on a daily basis. I don't know if this is something I will ever overcome completely, and I'm oddly okay with that.

The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.