Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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121–140 (377)
tiny.ag/akq8lupr · submitted 1997
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/3dgnw9ta · submitted 1997
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
tiny.ag/qowr2a9d · submitted 1997
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.
tiny.ag/mzqjkhnh · submitted 1997
Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
tiny.ag/wk0s75et · submitted 1997
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened, it won't last.
tiny.ag/xw6wlcfo · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
tiny.ag/okiuvldz · submitted 1997
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · submitted 1997
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/i1bt6pjo · submitted 1998 by Tim McGowan
I must catch up with the others, for I am their leader.
tiny.ag/tgov7yf4 · submitted 1997
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
tiny.ag/wyl7j4bs · submitted 1997
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/lpeqizys · submitted 1997
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
tiny.ag/0aw3r6zu · submitted 1999
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
tiny.ag/enjckxg8 · submitted 1997
Nothing very good or very bad lasts very long.
tiny.ag/mtyfl0j1 · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/rvxpkbzw · submitted 1997
The average person thinks he isn't.
tiny.ag/zi6fgh0w · submitted 1997
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
tiny.ag/ry72cat0 · submitted 1997
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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