Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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301–320 (377)
tiny.ag/cgb5omnm · submitted 1997
They are able because they think they are able.
tiny.ag/30roecxw · submitted 1997
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
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/nhesdamx · submitted 1997
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
tiny.ag/ubucsjmk · submitted 1997
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
tiny.ag/qhz1bahc · submitted 1997
Your ass is grass and I am the lawnmower.
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/n3oab9iu · submitted 1997
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
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.
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