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

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

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu

Silence is a source of great strength.
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

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

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West

Great loves too must be endured.
Coco Chanel

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Sun Tzu

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde