“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (unverified)