Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/piklxjab · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
tiny.ag/knpetbhm · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's no success like failure, And failure's no success at all.
Bob Dylan, "Love Minus Zero/No Limit", in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/varfwyts · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
tiny.ag/e97mpzt2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (327 ratings) · submitted 1997
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
tiny.ag/xuprbfr6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
tiny.ag/ndscvllq · ★★☆☆ Fair (339 ratings) · submitted 1997
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
tiny.ag/ck8ji3nm · ★★☆☆ Fair (36 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ivbmwcle · ★★☆☆ Fair (123 ratings) · submitted 1997
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
tiny.ag/0csjlftm · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 2011 by peter
Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.
tiny.ag/qtbtjqxs · ★★☆☆ Fair (185 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks.
tiny.ag/sdc7t2fc · ★★☆☆ Fair (167 ratings) · submitted 1997
If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
tiny.ag/8ebocmyu · ★★☆☆ Fair (174 ratings) · submitted 1997
Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.
tiny.ag/renqzacv · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
You're a genius if you fly a kite during a thunderstorm, and discover that lightning is electricity -- but you're an idiot if you fly a kite during a thunderstorm, and discover that lightning can kill you.
Unknown, (from Mad Magazine), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/gelcd01a · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
You should emulate your heroes, but don't carry it too far. Especially if they are dead.
tiny.ag/lc1buagj · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
You cannot produce a baby in one month by impregnating nine women.
tiny.ag/tnfwhxlp · ★★☆☆ Fair (185 ratings) · submitted 1997
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
tiny.ag/gpnuvt0q · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
tiny.ag/f65xdmkd · ★★☆☆ Fair (182 ratings) · submitted 1997
You are not what you think you are, you are not what they think you are, but you could be what you think they think you are.
tiny.ag/xjrw4zcp · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1997
While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else.
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