Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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361–377 (377)
tiny.ag/zdanfcvk · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
tiny.ag/dhpqxvke · ★★☆☆ Fair (852 ratings) · submitted 1997
Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ass2ou8g · ★★☆☆ Fair (222 ratings) · submitted 1997
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
tiny.ag/zsifm5dt · ★★☆☆ Fair (293 ratings) · submitted 1997
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/qkzfb5u9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (780 ratings) · submitted 1997
You see things and you say, "Why?" But I see things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Part I, Act I (1921), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ecgyv8jm · ★★☆☆ Fair (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (171 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
tiny.ag/mzqjkhnh · ★★☆☆ Fair (111 ratings) · submitted 1997
Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.
tiny.ag/qowr2a9d · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.
tiny.ag/3dgnw9ta · ★★☆☆ Fair (35 ratings) · submitted 1997
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
tiny.ag/akq8lupr · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/9umqrmgd · ★★☆☆ Fair (859 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Bill Masterson (wmasterson
The race may not be always to the swift, or the battle to the strong, but that's sure the way to bet.
tiny.ag/axmb1ikq · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/0jnrf9e2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing good ever ends.
tiny.ag/6ntlf03d · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
tiny.ag/euochyxn · ★★☆☆ Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Daniel Schorr, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
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