The Success Genome Unravelled Quotes

“Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“Busy mouths grow on idle heads”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“It used to be that a man could keep out of trouble if he behaved himself. Now he will only keep out of trouble if he behaves himself, the police behave themselves, and court behaves itself.”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“A book is the only true land of the free: within its borders, anything is possible”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“Global warming will not end by Earth finding a shade under the trees but under our hands joined together”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“The highest form of worship is to answer God's prayer.”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“Happy homes are filled with the noise of children; unhappy homes the noise of their parents”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“The choice is ours to make whether the stars in the night sky shine upon us as headlights of an approaching paradise or as tail-lights of receding fortunes”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“Some instincts are best left uncivilized”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“In sweetness nothing surpasses love reborn”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“The world would sooner bury a live rat than it would a dead lion”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“The Patriots erred in the Boston Tea Party: they seized Oligarch tea & dumped it in the sea but left Oligarch gold untouched. It's that gold that has troubled the nation from that day to this. Next time, go for the gold. Hence these words: "... yes, not British tea but Oligarch gold must down Boston harbour go ...”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“At the approach of duty, some serve, some swerve”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“There is only one success for all humanity: to have a positive impact on the preservation and prosperity of life. Any achievement other than this is at best merely a platform to pursue real success.”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“The age of exploration has now moved to outer space, and so have its hobgoblins. The sailor in the heavens, like the mariner of old, is harried by the spectre of sailing into a falls — not a water falls at the edge of the earth but a space falls nested in his course as a black hole.”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“The great aim of the dating game is to find that one person who can stand at the bottom of your heart and touch the top of your mind”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“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 a dancer, their arms outstretched above a shaggy mane. Life reveals few sights as distressing as the look of flowers standing mournfully at attention unstirred by the kisses of a million bees. This infection of uncomely reserve is the handiwork of sombre gardeners bred in sombre societies who will not consider their work done till their flowers exude in aspect that stiffness they esteem. They forget that God intended that we mingle with flowers and not merely admire them from afar. But there is a look in a fastidiously manicured garden that makes me keep my distance, a look that draws my eyes but scorns my touch, and that is why I condemn them.”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“Gender equality remains meaningless until we consider it to mean that femininity and masculinity, when we consider the full scope of capabilities that they each afford humanity, are of equal value to society. Therefore, women who attempt to act out equality while suppressing their femininity do not prove equality but only the advantage of masculinity.”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“Our hearts gain from the weight of fear what the athlete's limbs gain from the weight of dumbbells, but only if like the athlete we do not carry that weight all day but learn to set it down before the stress of exertion begins to crush the sinews it was meant to build.”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“People of great faith are almost always lacking in reason, while people possessed of great reason often suffer from a pitiful lack of faith. So it always happens that people of great faith can move the world but cannot steer it, while people possessed of great reason excel at steering the world but are hopeless at moving it”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“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 soul, & the afterlife.”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock