Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/zvet9opr · ★★☆☆ Fair (118 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
tiny.ag/6v4py5gm · ★★☆☆ Fair (30 ratings) · submitted 1997
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
tiny.ag/pcufmsbg · ★★☆☆ Fair (20 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing recedes like success.
tiny.ag/lveycuka · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1998
Just because you've been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn't mean you've been doing it right.
John Winsett, (said at a training seminar), in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/a5rzjxd3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
Where there is no vision, there is no achievment.
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/5hbi0ras · ★★☆☆ Fair (37 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.
David Summers, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/15hrdjm4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (472 ratings) · submitted 1997
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
tiny.ag/s2pjkz1e · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/yxd6qmth · ★★☆☆ Fair (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
tiny.ag/xajujcev · ★★☆☆ Fair (41 ratings) · submitted 1997
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
tiny.ag/1kqijph2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
tiny.ag/kfrp7mf8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (44 ratings) · submitted 1997
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
tiny.ag/uetklpkx · ★★☆☆ Fair (260 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power of the greatest obstacle.
tiny.ag/akq8lupr · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · 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/9umqrmgd · ★★☆☆ Fair (859 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Bill Masterson (wmasterson
The race may not be always to the swift, or the battle to the strong, but that's sure the way to bet.
tiny.ag/axmb1ikq · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/0jnrf9e2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing good ever ends.
tiny.ag/6ntlf03d · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
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