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Success and Failure

376 aphorisms  ·  9 comments

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tiny.ag/elkpp3t4  ·  submitted 1997

Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.

Tennessee Williams, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/no4elqmc  ·  submitted 1997

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

Earl Wilson, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/zvet9opr  ·  submitted 1997

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Woodrow Wilson, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/6v4py5gm  ·  submitted 1997

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

Walter Winchell, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/pcufmsbg  ·  submitted 1997

Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Winchell, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/lveycuka  ·  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  ·  submitted 1997

Where there is no vision, there is no achievment.

Chris Y., in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/1dmiuqr0  ·  submitted 1997

People who never acheive happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep,they are thinking about what to complain about tommorrow.

Adam Zimbler, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/mzqjkhnh  ·  submitted 1997

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.

Will Rogers, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/qowr2a9d  ·  submitted 1997

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.

Ed Rollins, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/3dgnw9ta  ·  submitted 1997

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Leo Rosten, in Success and Failure

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/9umqrmgd  ·  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.

Damon Runyon, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/axmb1ikq  ·  submitted 1997

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Carl Sandburg, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/8qrwy5es  ·  submitted 1997

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

William Saroyan, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

tiny.ag/0jnrf9e2  ·  submitted 1997

Nothing good ever ends.

William Saroyan, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/6ntlf03d  ·  submitted 1997

No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse.

Richard Sasuly, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/euochyxn  ·  submitted 1997

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Daniel Schorr, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/zmkoye6d  ·  submitted 1997

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

Elias Schwartz, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/zdanfcvk  ·  submitted 1997

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer, in Success and Failure