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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about humility, wish, being, contentment

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about humility, wish, contentment

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

Quote by Michael Caine about contentment

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

Quote by Maria Callas about end, home, house, imagination, life

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

Quote by Michael Chabon about meetings

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Quote by Winston Churchill

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about interest, word, perfection, people

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Quote by Henry Ford about chance, failure, time

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about man

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about equality, death

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about genius

All emergency calls will wait until you begin to eat, regardless of the time.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine, time, contentment

The typical job interview will begin with, so, what cultural stereotype do you represent.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

The end begins to grow from means as the tree germinates from seed.

Quote by Mahatma Gandhi about end

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Quote by Thomas Paine about guvernement, common sense, security, interest, society

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Quote by Thomas Paine about power, world

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson about man, chance

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really the important people are the people he photographs.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography, people, world, good, good luck

Or if we begin with the inward world of thought and feeling, the whirlpool is still more rapid, the flame more eager and devouring.

Quote by Walter Pater about world, thinking