Success and Failure
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tiny.ag/pxbmzdh5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (255 ratings) · submitted 1997
Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.
tiny.ag/vjl9ro7i · ★★☆☆ Fair (63 ratings) · submitted 1997
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
tiny.ag/dlqoy9f3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/cf7uraml · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
tiny.ag/rxx8g4si · ★★☆☆ Fair (67 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
tiny.ag/9einaqki · ★★☆☆ Fair (137 ratings) · submitted 1997
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/r5b2304k · ★★☆☆ Fair (85 ratings) · submitted 1997
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
tiny.ag/nms3wmpx · ★★☆☆ Fair (63 ratings) · submitted 1997
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
tiny.ag/shpmv1fs · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
tiny.ag/dvyytf1b · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
tiny.ag/y5vkzeae · ★★☆☆ Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen R. Covey, Principle-Centered Leadership, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/60xih5fm · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
tiny.ag/wlihbcon · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
"It can't happen here" is number 1 on the list of famous last words.
tiny.ag/uqvndhdp · ★★☆☆ Fair (901 ratings) · submitted 1997
Become addicted to constant and neverending self-improvement.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/zan4dyde · ★★☆☆ Fair (869 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/k5r69m8l · ★★☆☆ Fair (779 ratings) · submitted 1997
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ikcjtldg · ★★☆☆ Fair (451 ratings) · submitted 1997
A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
tiny.ag/rwq2lgkv · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act and, in acting, to live.
tiny.ag/cya9lpyt · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
tiny.ag/br8cx6zt · ★★☆☆ Fair (628 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
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