Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/jh8e0mpv · ★★☆☆ Fair (28 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
tiny.ag/pyo8tp7v · ★★☆☆ Fair (16 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every solution breeds new problems.
tiny.ag/5vltvcdk · ★★☆☆ Fair (14 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
tiny.ag/ifmh7qzv · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything you do or say is public relations.
tiny.ag/rhb5ylek · ★★☆☆ Fair (32 ratings) · submitted 1997
Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterwards.
tiny.ag/5dmluv32 · ★★☆☆ Fair (24 ratings) · submitted 1997
Finagle's Fourth Law: Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.
tiny.ag/s45yjewi · ★★☆☆ Fair (21 ratings) · submitted 1997
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
tiny.ag/vdu1almu · ★★☆☆ Fair (20 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got.
tiny.ag/8ixk9v6t · ★★☆☆ Fair (19 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
tiny.ag/epdarexm · ★★☆☆ Fair (190 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Jim Mueller
I wish I were what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
tiny.ag/lhewzazm · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'd rather be rich than stupid.
tiny.ag/5edntuvq · ★★☆☆ Fair (32 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I can be of any help, you're in worse trouble than I thought.
tiny.ag/fsy6lb1v · ★★☆☆ Fair (35 ratings) · submitted 1997
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
tiny.ag/stfdm53a · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
tiny.ag/aqhc8mvh · ★★☆☆ Fair (1060 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
tiny.ag/bgvxtarp · ★★☆☆ Fair (1204 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · 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
tiny.ag/sr1e2c3y · ★★☆☆ Fair (90 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.
tiny.ag/p3dfzooi · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
tiny.ag/2xwphyb8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (162 ratings) · submitted 1997
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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