Quotes by Agona Apell

46 quotes found

Common Themes

“The bold display of our unattractive parts is an effective substitute for beauty since it duplicates beauty's principal effects, namely the excitation of admiration, charm, and envy in the beholder...”

— Agona Apell

beauty beauty-in-life boldness successful-living

“In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the...”

— Agona Apell

leadership-quotes orator oratory public-speaking

“I rebuke societies that impart to their flowers their cold and rigid demeanour. Flowers should not stand with the stiffness of a soldier on parade but must carry themselves with the relaxedness of ...”

— Agona Apell

flower-quotes flowers garden-design gardening

“Men who attain great heights always have few friends but many admirers, while those who ply the lower reaches of fortune often have many friends but scarcely an admirer in sight”

— Agona Apell

inspirational-quotes success-self-improvement

“The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares”

— Agona Apell

conquer-quotes conqueror leadership-quotes war-on-terror

“The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true.”

— Agona Apell

failure-and-success failure-quotes fortune fortune-in-failing