While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Henry David Thoreau

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
Lao Tzu

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
Jimi Hendrix

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.
Mike Ditka

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Jim Rohn

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Jonathan Swift

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
James Dean

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James Madison

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
Dwight L. Moody

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Plutarch

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Blaise Pascal

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
Noam Chomsky

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe