Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/dozch5ts · ★★☆☆ Fair (611 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
tiny.ag/1j9ttvjx · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.
tiny.ag/dxiykzqf · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1999
If at first you don't succeed, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no sense in being a damned fool about it.
tiny.ag/yyswmzge · ★★☆☆ Fair (373 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you're strong enough, there are no precedents.
tiny.ag/ykvnehgu · ★★☆☆ Fair (729 ratings) · submitted 1997
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
tiny.ag/16klo0kt · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whether you think that you can or that you can't, you are usually right.
tiny.ag/mydapq7x · ★★☆☆ Fair (605 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Megan
To accomplish great things, you must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.
tiny.ag/hukld0ge · ★★☆☆ Fair (291 ratings) · submitted 1997
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked throughout the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/vpwdae8j · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/9kdycunx · ★★☆☆ Fair (1386 ratings) · submitted 1997
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.
Robert Frost, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/jymwcve2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (120 ratings) · submitted 1997
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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/vaj63mlc · ★★☆☆ Fair (428 ratings) · submitted 1997
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
tiny.ag/n3oab9iu · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
tiny.ag/cgb5omnm · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
They are able because they think they are able.
tiny.ag/e2kqoyj7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (480 ratings) · submitted 1997
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
tiny.ag/5wea9qlk · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · 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/30roecxw · ★★☆☆ Fair (80 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/cwprmiyl · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
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