Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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321–340 (377)
tiny.ag/ndscvllq · submitted 1997
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
tiny.ag/piklxjab · 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/ynhvcg3k · submitted 1997
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
tiny.ag/axybc0uz · submitted 1997
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
tiny.ag/isf8vo05 · submitted 1997
Delay is preferable to error.
tiny.ag/bgvxtarp · submitted 1997
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/pazvp4tb · submitted 1997
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Pope John Paul I, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/sr1e2c3y · submitted 1997
Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.
tiny.ag/p3dfzooi · submitted 1997
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
tiny.ag/2xwphyb8 · submitted 1997
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
tiny.ag/woh9u2ra · submitted 1997
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
tiny.ag/1nxtc03g · submitted 1997
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
tiny.ag/zhi7upjz · submitted 1997
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
tiny.ag/yuovagrx · submitted 1997
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
tiny.ag/4ow5sbvj · submitted 1997
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
tiny.ag/d6nssfxi · submitted 1997
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
tiny.ag/dxbh08ml · submitted 1997
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
tiny.ag/hdkst9q4 · submitted 1997
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
tiny.ag/ck8ji3nm · 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 · 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
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