Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.