Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/1nxtc03g · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
tiny.ag/4ow5sbvj · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
tiny.ag/d6nssfxi · ★★☆☆ Fair (277 ratings) · submitted 1997
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
tiny.ag/yuovagrx · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
tiny.ag/zhi7upjz · ★★☆☆ Fair (419 ratings) · submitted 1997
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
tiny.ag/woh9u2ra · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
tiny.ag/2xwphyb8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (162 ratings) · submitted 1997
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
tiny.ag/p3dfzooi · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
tiny.ag/pazvp4tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (90 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.
tiny.ag/nvfl7j9k · ★★☆☆ Fair (522 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
tiny.ag/eswahi1x · ★★☆☆ Fair (200 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
tiny.ag/ynhvcg3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (2972 ratings) · submitted 1997
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
tiny.ag/isf8vo05 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1041 ratings) · submitted 1997
Delay is preferable to error.
tiny.ag/bgvxtarp · ★★☆☆ Fair (1204 ratings) · 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/zsgksyjo · ★★☆☆ Fair (316 ratings) · submitted 1997
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
tiny.ag/iyraxvda · ★★☆☆ Fair (365 ratings) · submitted 1997
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commision.
tiny.ag/xgpm1arf · ★★☆☆ Fair (1071 ratings) · submitted 1999
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
tiny.ag/wva2bjoz · ★★☆☆ Fair (153 ratings) · submitted 1997
I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.
Dominic, (on the psychology of a gambler), in Life and Death and Success and Failure
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