Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

It’s what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.

From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if you throw a lot away, the good stuff always comes back; nothing is lost.

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

I make more money than I need, ever.

When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.

I've made more money than I could spend in five lifetimes.

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. You ought because you can do more good with it than you could do without it. Money printed your Bible, money builds your churches, money sends your missionaries, and money pays your preachers, and you would not have many of them, either, if you did not pay them.

The land is the finest for cultivation that I ever in my life set foot upon. Were our own industrious farmers to settle here, they would soon transform this wilderness into a Paradise where no man need ever go hungry….Never have I beheld such a rich and pleasant land.

Activity produces riches, and riches do not endure when it slackens.