Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/gfofcun3 · submitted 1997
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
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/5hbi0ras · submitted 1997
Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.
David Summers, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/15hrdjm4 · submitted 1997
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
tiny.ag/s2pjkz1e · submitted 1997
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/5wea9qlk · submitted 1997
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.
tiny.ag/6wwft1cd · submitted 1997
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
tiny.ag/7kxpl9yw · submitted 1997
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
tiny.ag/6ksjcdo8 · submitted 1997
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
tiny.ag/wb5d0s4b · submitted 1997
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
tiny.ag/uetklpkx · 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/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.
tiny.ag/1kqijph2 · submitted 1997
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
tiny.ag/xajujcev · submitted 1997
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
tiny.ag/yxd6qmth · submitted 1997
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
tiny.ag/enjckxg8 · submitted 1997
Nothing very good or very bad lasts very long.
tiny.ag/la8pw7kl · submitted 1997
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
tiny.ag/boc0z1r2 · submitted 1997
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
tiny.ag/4horecyq · submitted 1997
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
tiny.ag/6wach9td · submitted 1997
Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win.
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