Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/lpeqizys · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
tiny.ag/wjnnpmri · ★★☆☆ Fair (63 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
tiny.ag/qhz1bahc · ★★☆☆ Fair (38 ratings) · submitted 1997
Your ass is grass and I am the lawnmower.
tiny.ag/ubucsjmk · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
tiny.ag/nhesdamx · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
tiny.ag/jwf0oyef · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1997
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/gfofcun3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
tiny.ag/av8bxdwe · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
tiny.ag/ssgp4mwz · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
tiny.ag/mwivhu4q · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Marty Milner
Modesty is the opium of the mediocre.
tiny.ag/hnbrayvq · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
When one is trying to do something beyond one's known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
tiny.ag/uitd5jhz · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
I want what I want when I want it!
Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/9nbvii3g · ★★☆☆ Fair (39 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't think, just do.
tiny.ag/fwsozshx · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · 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/zpsqkb73 · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.
tiny.ag/93thhysu · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
tiny.ag/vtq15sgk · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
tiny.ag/hd1r4yfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
tiny.ag/axfjdopk · ★★☆☆ Fair (143 ratings) · submitted 1997
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
tiny.ag/yqo9cx7w · ★★☆☆ Fair (313 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
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