Do your work, but do your thing.
Interpretation
Balance your responsibilities with your personal passions.
This quote emphasizes the importance of fulfilling one's duties while also staying true to oneself. Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that work should not solely define a person; instead, one should integrate personal interests and passions into their work life to achieve a sense of fulfillment and authenticity.
In practice
In a speech about personal development, you might use this quote to encourage others to pursue their passions alongside their careers.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
So I am not teaching you to be good, I am not teaching you to be bad; I am teaching you only to be whole. To be whole is to be healthy and to be healthy is to be holy.
I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.
Don't worry about what you can't control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we CAN control. Attitude, effort, focus- these are the things we can control.
Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, βMr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?β And I said, βNone.β He then asked, βWho sold you on that plan?β
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
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