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

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Henry David Thoreau

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau

Being is the great explainer.
Henry David Thoreau

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Henry David Thoreau

Silence is a source of great strength.
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

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
Lao Tzu

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Lao Tzu

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt