Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/ki5uq3ph · ★★☆☆ Fair (24 ratings) · submitted 1997
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
tiny.ag/5hbi0ras · ★★☆☆ Fair (37 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.
David Summers, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/15hrdjm4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (472 ratings) · submitted 1997
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
tiny.ag/s2pjkz1e · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/yxd6qmth · ★★☆☆ Fair (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
tiny.ag/xajujcev · ★★☆☆ Fair (41 ratings) · submitted 1997
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
tiny.ag/1kqijph2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
tiny.ag/kfrp7mf8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (44 ratings) · submitted 1997
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
tiny.ag/uetklpkx · ★★☆☆ Fair (260 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power of the greatest obstacle.
tiny.ag/wb5d0s4b · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
tiny.ag/6ksjcdo8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
tiny.ag/7kxpl9yw · ★★☆☆ Fair (342 ratings) · submitted 1997
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
tiny.ag/dhpqxvke · ★★☆☆ Fair (852 ratings) · submitted 1997
Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/1j9ttvjx · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.
tiny.ag/dxiykzqf · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1999
If at first you don't succeed, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no sense in being a damned fool about it.
tiny.ag/yyswmzge · ★★☆☆ Fair (373 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you're strong enough, there are no precedents.
tiny.ag/ykvnehgu · ★★☆☆ Fair (729 ratings) · submitted 1997
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
tiny.ag/16klo0kt · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whether you think that you can or that you can't, you are usually right.
tiny.ag/mydapq7x · ★★☆☆ Fair (605 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Megan
To accomplish great things, you must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.
tiny.ag/hukld0ge · ★★☆☆ Fair (291 ratings) · submitted 1997
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked throughout the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, in Success and Failure
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