Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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81–100 (377)
tiny.ag/axmb1ikq · submitted 1997
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
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.
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/3dgnw9ta · submitted 1997
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
tiny.ag/qowr2a9d · submitted 1997
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.
tiny.ag/6wach9td · submitted 1997
Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win.
tiny.ag/jgjax6rp · submitted 1999
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
tiny.ag/la8pw7kl · submitted 1997
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s · submitted 1997
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/boc0z1r2 · submitted 1997
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
tiny.ag/4horecyq · submitted 1997
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
tiny.ag/ecbydwuh · submitted 1997
After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.
Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/oic7hxlc · submitted 1997
After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.
tiny.ag/zpsqkb73 · submitted 1997
The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.
tiny.ag/fwsozshx · submitted 1997
If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.
tiny.ag/ndscvllq · submitted 1997
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
tiny.ag/piklxjab · submitted 1997
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
tiny.ag/ynhvcg3k · submitted 1997
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
tiny.ag/bgvxtarp · 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/pazvp4tb · submitted 1997
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Pope John Paul I, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
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