Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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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/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/h5blv72l · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
tiny.ag/n3oab9iu · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
tiny.ag/cgb5omnm · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
They are able because they think they are able.
tiny.ag/30roecxw · ★★☆☆ Fair (80 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/ghr75dcd · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
tiny.ag/kzayik2y · ★★☆☆ Fair (47 ratings) · submitted 1997
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
tiny.ag/m3n54rvj · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
tiny.ag/vpdlcnc4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.
tiny.ag/ajoczguy · ★★☆☆ Fair (351 ratings) · submitted 1997
Usually, if you're calling any shots at all, you're not eating worms.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (the Susie Derkins character), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/6wwft1cd · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
tiny.ag/cwprmiyl · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
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