Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/enjckxg8 · submitted 1997
Nothing very good or very bad lasts very long.
tiny.ag/ry72cat0 · submitted 1997
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
tiny.ag/zi6fgh0w · submitted 1997
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
tiny.ag/emt4aro3 · submitted 1997
It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.
William Markiewicz, Extracts of Existence, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/4ow5sbvj · submitted 1997
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
tiny.ag/d6nssfxi · submitted 1997
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
tiny.ag/dxbh08ml · submitted 1997
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
tiny.ag/jgjax6rp · submitted 1999
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
tiny.ag/la8pw7kl · submitted 1997
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s · submitted 1997
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/boc0z1r2 · submitted 1997
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
tiny.ag/6wach9td · submitted 1997
Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win.
tiny.ag/rxjp4mey · submitted 1997
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
tiny.ag/ogrpomi2 · submitted 1997
Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?
tiny.ag/gwiaxqqe · submitted 1997
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
tiny.ag/gdmyudjb · 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/4ocga7zg · submitted 1997
I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one.
tiny.ag/tmknh1db · submitted 1997
99% of the game is half mental.
tiny.ag/lmbiznpc · submitted 1997
It's not over until it's over.
tiny.ag/hdkst9q4 · submitted 1997
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
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