Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/6ntlf03d · submitted 1997
No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
tiny.ag/euochyxn · 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
tiny.ag/zmkoye6d · submitted 1997
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
tiny.ag/zdanfcvk · submitted 1997
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
tiny.ag/dhpqxvke · submitted 1997
Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ass2ou8g · 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 · 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 · 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/u1iblda0 · submitted 1997
It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.
tiny.ag/d4uzlrvm · submitted 1997
It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.
tiny.ag/uc5f23qi · submitted 1997
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
tiny.ag/yuovagrx · submitted 1997
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
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/wk0s75et · submitted 1997
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened, it won't last.
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
tiny.ag/mzqjkhnh · submitted 1997
Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.
tiny.ag/qowr2a9d · submitted 1997
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.
tiny.ag/3dgnw9ta · submitted 1997
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
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