Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/e2kqoyj7 · submitted 1997
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
tiny.ag/vaj63mlc · submitted 1997
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
tiny.ag/elkpp3t4 · submitted 1997
Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.
tiny.ag/no4elqmc · submitted 1997
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
tiny.ag/zvet9opr · submitted 1997
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
tiny.ag/6v4py5gm · submitted 1997
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
tiny.ag/pcufmsbg · submitted 1997
Nothing recedes like success.
tiny.ag/lveycuka · submitted 1998
Just because you've been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn't mean you've been doing it right.
John Winsett, (said at a training seminar), in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/a5rzjxd3 · submitted 1997
Where there is no vision, there is no achievment.
tiny.ag/1dmiuqr0 · submitted 1997
People who never acheive happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep,they are thinking about what to complain about tommorrow.
tiny.ag/abk7huzh · submitted 1997
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace
tiny.ag/hcgfyxv9 · submitted 1997
A .44 magnum beats four aces.
tiny.ag/hjgpjdl6 · submitted 1997
A bend in the road is not the end of the road -- unless you fail to make the turn.
tiny.ag/1nxtc03g · submitted 1997
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
tiny.ag/ubucsjmk · submitted 1997
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
tiny.ag/woh9u2ra · submitted 1997
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
tiny.ag/2xwphyb8 · submitted 1997
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
tiny.ag/p3dfzooi · submitted 1997
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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.
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