Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/bpcdcqq7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (553 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hitch your wagon to a star.
tiny.ag/2lhdnopk · ★★☆☆ Fair (213 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man can get through me but through my act.
tiny.ag/ezoktgw3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (196 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
tiny.ag/ndscvllq · ★★☆☆ Fair (339 ratings) · submitted 1997
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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/z9mjngin · ★★☆☆ Fair (1195 ratings) · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/xw6wlcfo · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
tiny.ag/wk0s75et · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened, it won't last.
tiny.ag/t8hgtc1d · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/xiwdsjg7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.
tiny.ag/uyr1lndu · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
tiny.ag/slwohzjt · ★★☆☆ Fair (549 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's kinda fun to do the impossible.
tiny.ag/xgpm1arf · ★★☆☆ Fair (1071 ratings) · submitted 1999
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
tiny.ag/wva2bjoz · ★★☆☆ Fair (153 ratings) · submitted 1997
I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.
Dominic, (on the psychology of a gambler), in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/tacuwmyh · ★★☆☆ Fair (146 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who hesitates is probably smart... or maybe stapled to the floor.
tiny.ag/lsjxix1g · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking only gets worse with decapitation.
tiny.ag/9bumiall · ★★☆☆ Fair (355 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
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/mgtvsjqa · ★★☆☆ Fair (415 ratings) · submitted 1997
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/4xolnjrp · ★★☆☆ Fair (502 ratings) · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
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