Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/of4kcoqn · submitted 1997
There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.
tiny.ag/ki5uq3ph · submitted 1997
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
tiny.ag/h5blv72l · submitted 1997
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
tiny.ag/s4bygqtn · submitted 1997
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
tiny.ag/dvzdavyb · submitted 1997
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
tiny.ag/jlevctud · submitted 1997
Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
tiny.ag/ka7fkx9f · submitted 1997
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
tiny.ag/5r2sagdx · submitted 1997
To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
tiny.ag/6wplp1s3 · submitted 1997
We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.
tiny.ag/m5vupi74 · submitted 1997
When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.
tiny.ag/9nbvii3g · submitted 1997
Don't think, just do.
tiny.ag/uitd5jhz · submitted 1997
I want what I want when I want it!
Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/fwsozshx · submitted 1997
If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.
tiny.ag/zpsqkb73 · submitted 1997
The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.
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
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