Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · submitted 1997
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/i1bt6pjo · submitted 1998 by Tim McGowan
I must catch up with the others, for I am their leader.
tiny.ag/tgov7yf4 · submitted 1997
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
tiny.ag/1j9ttvjx · 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/hukld0ge · 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 · submitted 1997
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/9kdycunx · 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 · submitted 1997
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
tiny.ag/zi6fgh0w · submitted 1997
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
tiny.ag/bpcdcqq7 · submitted 1997
Hitch your wagon to a star.
tiny.ag/2lhdnopk · submitted 1997
No man can get through me but through my act.
tiny.ag/ezoktgw3 · submitted 1997
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
tiny.ag/2ohv3gf8 · submitted 1997
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/0bmtlpd4 · submitted 1997
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
tiny.ag/dozch5ts · submitted 1997
Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
tiny.ag/4xolnjrp · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/bx0vlces · submitted 1997
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- unless it is an enemy.
Albert Einstein, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/bu9vryao · submitted 1997
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
tiny.ag/oqp628a1 · submitted 1997
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
tiny.ag/xiwdsjg7 · submitted 1997
Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.
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