Success and Failure
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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/cf7uraml · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
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/lasqyfqt · ★★☆☆ Fair (80 ratings) · submitted 1997
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
tiny.ag/dvyytf1b · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
tiny.ag/rxx8g4si · ★★☆☆ Fair (67 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
tiny.ag/nms3wmpx · ★★☆☆ Fair (63 ratings) · submitted 1997
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
tiny.ag/r5b2304k · ★★☆☆ Fair (85 ratings) · submitted 1997
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
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/shpmv1fs · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
tiny.ag/0516mcy2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1042 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Chris Blake
The majority of the time, the thing that gets in the way of success... is your brain.
tiny.ag/qv5khfql · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Werner von Braun, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/br8cx6zt · ★★☆☆ Fair (628 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
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/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/imyvlox8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (481 ratings) · submitted 1997
Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/snlzrsu1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (741 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hatred: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/hobsgyde · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
Why be a man when you can be a success?
tiny.ag/ikcjtldg · ★★☆☆ Fair (451 ratings) · submitted 1997
A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
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