To be great is to be misunderstood.Ralph Waldo EmersonTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“To be great is to be misunderstood.
“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.”Ralph Waldo EmersonBalanced
“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.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.”Harry Emerson FosdickGreat
“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?”TecumsehGreat
“When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.”Ralph Waldo EmersonPhilosophy
“There is a great power in speaking your truth and standing for something important.”Sonita AlizadehGreat