Success and Failure
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tiny.ag/zsifm5dt · ★★☆☆ Fair (293 ratings) · submitted 1997
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/qkzfb5u9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (780 ratings) · submitted 1997
You see things and you say, "Why?" But I see things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Part I, Act I (1921), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ecgyv8jm · ★★☆☆ Fair (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
tiny.ag/u9pdixbi · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Stanley, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/of4kcoqn · ★★☆☆ Fair (316 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.
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/akq8lupr · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · 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/qowr2a9d · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.
tiny.ag/mzqjkhnh · ★★☆☆ Fair (111 ratings) · submitted 1997
Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.
tiny.ag/zfe8lgun · ★★☆☆ Fair (50 ratings) · submitted 1997
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
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/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/opp6altk · ★★☆☆ Fair (680 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ikcjtldg · ★★☆☆ Fair (451 ratings) · submitted 1997
A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · ★★☆☆ Fair (1195 ratings) · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/xw6wlcfo · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (171 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
tiny.ag/wk0s75et · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened, it won't last.
tiny.ag/hdkst9q4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (445 ratings) · submitted 1997
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
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