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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #tent




Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.


Criss Jami


#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.


William Shakespeare


#good-intentions #goodness #men

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.


Simone de Beauvoir


#existentialism #philosophers #men

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.


Richard Cecil


#attention #beautiful #best #convinced #dwell

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.


Charles Rosen


#also #art #attention #carefully #classical

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.


Confucius


#desire #door #excellence #full #keys

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.


Zig Ziglar


#direction #focus #inspirational #motivational #inspirational

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.


Vera Nazarian


#bark #gestures #hear #hearing #listen

My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.


Joey Lauren Adams


#non-existent #pretty #relationship

Every interaction presents an opportunity for growth, one of the keys to our limitless potential.


Simon Boylan


#inspiration #inspirational #potential #inspirational