Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/5r2sagdx · submitted 1997
To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
tiny.ag/pdvztxjj · submitted 1997
You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.
tiny.ag/n3oab9iu · submitted 1997
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
tiny.ag/he6rec8v · submitted 1997
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
tiny.ag/zdvgyvsm · submitted 1997
Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
tiny.ag/wlbk96e3 · submitted 1997
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty, in Success and Failure and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/py5syczo · submitted 1997
Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.
tiny.ag/orx9er1h · submitted 1997
The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
tiny.ag/jvo6jzxe · submitted 1997
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
tiny.ag/sk2lr8ad · submitted 1997
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
tiny.ag/pyfjvpn5 · submitted 1997
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
tiny.ag/hvtbkoet · submitted 1997
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
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/iwcasutl · submitted 1997
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
tiny.ag/dncdjxtf · submitted 1997
No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
tiny.ag/f6aon4ji · submitted 1998
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ykvnehgu · submitted 1997
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
tiny.ag/2ohv3gf8 · submitted 1997
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/0bmtlpd4 · submitted 1997
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
tiny.ag/dxiykzqf · submitted 1999
If at first you don't succeed, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no sense in being a damned fool about it.
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