Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
241–260 (377)
tiny.ag/enjckxg8 · submitted 1997
Nothing very good or very bad lasts very long.
tiny.ag/ry72cat0 · submitted 1997
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
tiny.ag/zi6fgh0w · submitted 1997
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
tiny.ag/emt4aro3 · submitted 1997
It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.
William Markiewicz, Extracts of Existence, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/okiuvldz · submitted 1997
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
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/pdvztxjj · submitted 1997
You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.
tiny.ag/opp6altk · submitted 1997
Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/snlzrsu1 · submitted 1997
Hatred: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/imyvlox8 · submitted 1997
Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/0516mcy2 · submitted 1999 by Chris Blake
The majority of the time, the thing that gets in the way of success... is your brain.
tiny.ag/zfe8lgun · submitted 1997
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
tiny.ag/dxbh08ml · submitted 1997
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
tiny.ag/av8bxdwe · submitted 1997
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
tiny.ag/gfofcun3 · submitted 1997
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
tiny.ag/jwf0oyef · submitted 1997
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/wva2bjoz · 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 · submitted 1997
He who hesitates is probably smart... or maybe stapled to the floor.
tiny.ag/lsjxix1g · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking only gets worse with decapitation.
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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