Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/qhz1bahc · ★★☆☆ Fair (38 ratings) · submitted 1997
Your ass is grass and I am the lawnmower.
tiny.ag/wjnnpmri · ★★☆☆ Fair (63 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
tiny.ag/av8bxdwe · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
tiny.ag/gfofcun3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
tiny.ag/jwf0oyef · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1997
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/wyl7j4bs · ★★☆☆ Fair (137 ratings) · submitted 1997
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
tiny.ag/hnbrayvq · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
When one is trying to do something beyond one's known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
tiny.ag/mwivhu4q · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Marty Milner
Modesty is the opium of the mediocre.
tiny.ag/ssgp4mwz · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
tiny.ag/ljsjuhkx · ★★☆☆ Fair (826 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/dxbh08ml · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
tiny.ag/jgjax6rp · ★★☆☆ Fair (1290 ratings) · submitted 1999
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Tim McGowan
I must catch up with the others, for I am their leader.
tiny.ag/tgov7yf4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
tiny.ag/pdvztxjj · ★★☆☆ Fair (149 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.
tiny.ag/shbtdjjo · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
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