Success and Failure
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tiny.ag/jb6usc1h · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reach for the moon and if you miss at least you will land among the stars.
tiny.ag/0516mcy2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1042 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Chris Blake
The majority of the time, the thing that gets in the way of success... is your brain.
tiny.ag/imyvlox8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (481 ratings) · submitted 1997
Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/snlzrsu1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (741 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hatred: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/opp6altk · ★★☆☆ Fair (680 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/hdkst9q4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (445 ratings) · submitted 1997
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
tiny.ag/lmbiznpc · ★★☆☆ Fair (371 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's not over until it's over.
tiny.ag/tmknh1db · ★★☆☆ Fair (163 ratings) · submitted 1997
99% of the game is half mental.
tiny.ag/rxjp4mey · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
tiny.ag/4ocga7zg · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one.
tiny.ag/gdmyudjb · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous.
tiny.ag/gwiaxqqe · ★★☆☆ Fair (436 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
tiny.ag/ogrpomi2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?
tiny.ag/u5mb79tw · ★★☆☆ Fair (232 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.
James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan, in Success and Failure
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/iyraxvda · ★★☆☆ Fair (365 ratings) · submitted 1997
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commision.
tiny.ag/zsgksyjo · ★★☆☆ Fair (316 ratings) · submitted 1997
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
tiny.ag/pdvztxjj · ★★☆☆ Fair (149 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.
tiny.ag/shbtdjjo · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
tiny.ag/kgnv53qx · ★★☆☆ Fair (3070 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
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