“To be great is to be misunderstood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.”

“Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”

“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.”

“Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?”

“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”