Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/qv5khfql · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Werner von Braun, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/hobsgyde · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
Why be a man when you can be a success?
tiny.ag/vv4beyfe · ★★☆☆ Fair (974 ratings) · submitted 1997
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/4t1buvks · ★★☆☆ Fair (1278 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/yxd6qmth · ★★☆☆ Fair (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
tiny.ag/xajujcev · ★★☆☆ Fair (41 ratings) · submitted 1997
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
tiny.ag/1kqijph2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
tiny.ag/kfrp7mf8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (44 ratings) · submitted 1997
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
tiny.ag/uetklpkx · ★★☆☆ Fair (260 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power of the greatest obstacle.
tiny.ag/wb5d0s4b · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
tiny.ag/6ksjcdo8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
tiny.ag/7kxpl9yw · ★★☆☆ Fair (342 ratings) · submitted 1997
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
tiny.ag/h5blv72l · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
tiny.ag/n3oab9iu · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/s2pjkz1e · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ghr75dcd · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
tiny.ag/15hrdjm4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (472 ratings) · submitted 1997
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
tiny.ag/30roecxw · ★★☆☆ Fair (80 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
tiny.ag/cgb5omnm · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
They are able because they think they are able.
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