Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize Quotations

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.