Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/1iteoxru · submitted 1997
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
tiny.ag/rhjtfglc · submitted 1997
The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
tiny.ag/zt1r3of5 · submitted 1997
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
tiny.ag/i1mqw56v · submitted 1997
The future belongs to those who dare.
tiny.ag/cajbytn9 · submitted 1997
The greatest thing man can create is himself.
tiny.ag/zoapng08 · submitted 1997
The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train.
tiny.ag/n6uw7frr · submitted 1997
The last time you failed, did you stop trying because you failed -- or did you fail because you stopped trying?
tiny.ag/4t1buvks · submitted 1997
I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/pcufmsbg · submitted 1997
Nothing recedes like success.
tiny.ag/6v4py5gm · submitted 1997
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
tiny.ag/zvet9opr · submitted 1997
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
tiny.ag/no4elqmc · submitted 1997
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
tiny.ag/elkpp3t4 · submitted 1997
Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.
tiny.ag/vaj63mlc · submitted 1997
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
tiny.ag/e2kqoyj7 · submitted 1997
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
tiny.ag/rsmenqfu · submitted 1997
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and whatever you hit, call it the target.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/cya9lpyt · submitted 1997
He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
tiny.ag/br8cx6zt · submitted 1997
I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
tiny.ag/qv5khfql · submitted 1997
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Werner von Braun, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/rwq2lgkv · submitted 1997
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act and, in acting, to live.
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