Success and Failure

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tiny.ag/zvet9opr · submitted 1997

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

tiny.ag/kfrp7mf8 · 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.

Virgil Thomson, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/e2kqoyj7 · submitted 1997

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

tiny.ag/vaj63mlc · submitted 1997

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/elkpp3t4 · submitted 1997

Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.

Tennessee Williams, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/no4elqmc · submitted 1997

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

Earl Wilson, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/ry72cat0 · submitted 1997

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/jwf0oyef · submitted 1997

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/gfofcun3 · submitted 1997

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/av8bxdwe · submitted 1997

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Joe Namath, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/ssgp4mwz · submitted 1997

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.

Wilson Mizner, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

tiny.ag/mwivhu4q · submitted 1999 by Marty Milner

Modesty is the opium of the mediocre.

Marty Milner, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/hnbrayvq · submitted 1997

When one is trying to do something beyond one's known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Henry Miller, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/mtyfl0j1 · submitted 1997