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

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Aristotle

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

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

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

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
W. Clement Stone

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
W. Clement Stone

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
Mitch Hedberg

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