Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/ry72cat0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
tiny.ag/enjckxg8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (45 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing very good or very bad lasts very long.
tiny.ag/mtyfl0j1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (753 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/rvxpkbzw · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
The average person thinks he isn't.
tiny.ag/0aw3r6zu · ★★☆☆ Fair (161 ratings) · submitted 1999
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
tiny.ag/d75fswen · ★★☆☆ Fair (90 ratings) · submitted 1998 by William F. Light
Don't let fear stop you.
William F. Light, (to someone threatening to knock him out), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ecbydwuh · ★★☆☆ Fair (846 ratings) · submitted 1997
After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.
Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/4horecyq · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
tiny.ag/p3dfzooi · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
tiny.ag/2xwphyb8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (162 ratings) · submitted 1997
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
tiny.ag/sr1e2c3y · ★★☆☆ Fair (90 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.
tiny.ag/pazvp4tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Pope John Paul I, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/bgvxtarp · ★★☆☆ Fair (1204 ratings) · submitted 1997
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/isf8vo05 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1041 ratings) · submitted 1997
Delay is preferable to error.
tiny.ag/2lhdnopk · ★★☆☆ Fair (213 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man can get through me but through my act.
tiny.ag/oqp628a1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
tiny.ag/bpcdcqq7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (553 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hitch your wagon to a star.
tiny.ag/axybc0uz · ★★☆☆ Fair (2972 ratings) · submitted 1997
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
tiny.ag/ezoktgw3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (196 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
tiny.ag/ynhvcg3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · submitted 1997
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
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