Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

The vinery is not made with blessings, but with hoes and spades.

I like being outside and I like hard work.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

Everyone must hoe his plot daily.

To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

Without labor nothing prospers.

I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.

I grew up in a farming family. I hated cleaning out the chickens but loved hatching them and feeding the new born sheep. The smell of hot milk still has a special resonance for me. Harvest was back-breaking work, though... Where do you think Jesus got his biceps from?

The more my people work, the less vices they will have