Quotes about Unsuccessful

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. Votes: 6

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. Votes: 6

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Votes: 6

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman. Votes: 6

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. Votes: 6

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me? Votes: 6

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success. Votes: 6

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others. Votes: 6

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. Votes: 6

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own. Votes: 6

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him. Votes: 6

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly. Votes: 6

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough. Votes: 6

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Votes: 6

The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination. Votes: 4

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. Votes: 4

Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles. Votes: 4

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. Votes: 4

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. Votes: 4

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' Votes: 4

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Votes: 4

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. Votes: 4

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business. Votes: 4

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. Votes: 4

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful. Votes: 4

It's imperative to realize that it is not necessary to try to get rid of fear in order to succeed. Rich and successful people have fear, rich and successful people have doubts, rich and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them. Unsuccessful people have fears, doubts, and worries, then let those feelings stop them. Votes: 4

Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired. Votes: 3

What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters? Votes: 3

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum. Votes: 3

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful idiots are always asking, "What's in it for me"? Votes: 3

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me~? Votes: 3

Unsuccessful headlines were not written without a strong appeal, but it was the wrong appeal for that product and that audience. Votes: 3

Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification. Votes: 3

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly. Votes: 3

Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance. Votes: 3

The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, the other guy has the best territory. The Successful Salesperson says, every territory is the best one. The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, that company will never buy. The Successful Salesperson says, I can make that company buy. Votes: 3

The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait. Votes: 3

I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful. Votes: 2

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. Votes: 2

I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office. Votes: 2

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad. Votes: 2

Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh. Votes: 2

I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor. Votes: 2

I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. That's the fact. Votes: 2

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence. Votes: 2

Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally. Votes: 2

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil. Votes: 2

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face. Votes: 2

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Votes: 0

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful. Votes: 0

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Votes: 0

The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves. Votes: 0

Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people won't do. Votes: 0

Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do. Votes: 0

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird. Votes: 0

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family. Votes: 0

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life. Votes: 0

Successful people are willing to do things unsuccessful people will not do. Votes: 0

My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful. Votes: 0

Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do. Votes: 0

The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is their perceptions of reality. Votes: 0

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination. Votes: 0

Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time! Votes: 0

he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular Votes: 0

Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being! Votes: 0

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are. Votes: 0

Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision. Votes: 0

Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people. Votes: 0

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. Votes: 0

The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic. Votes: 0

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal. Votes: 0

It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one. Votes: 0

I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact. Votes: 0

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason. Votes: 0

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two. Votes: 0

Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach Votes: 0

The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most. Votes: 0

Most unsuccessful people let their fears and doubts have the final say in how they live their lives. Votes: 0

I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful. Votes: 0

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Votes: 0

When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth. Votes: 0

Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it. Votes: 0

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them. Votes: 0

I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful. Votes: 0

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful? Votes: 0

The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world; the difference between them is what they see. Votes: 0

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time. Votes: 0

The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not. Votes: 0

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse. Votes: 0

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home. Votes: 0

There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character. Votes: 0

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do. Votes: 0

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. Votes: 0

If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together. Votes: 0

The difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is that, one has preserved his potentials while the other has processed his own! Votes: 0

There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character. Votes: 0

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. Votes: 0

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied. Votes: 0

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore. Votes: 0

I tried to mug a wealthy man, but was unsuccessful because I was out of coffee cups. I wish I was less poor and more pour. Votes: 0

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic. Votes: 0

If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease. Votes: 0

Isn't my fur stole pitiful? How unsuccessful can a girl look? People think I'm wearing anchovies. The worst of it is, I trapped these under my own sink. Votes: 0

The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series. Votes: 0

When you think that it's too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful Votes: 0

I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want. Votes: 0

I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting. Votes: 0

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful. Votes: 0

Can the "word" be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind. Votes: 0

The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness. Votes: 0

Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful. Votes: 0

Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives. Votes: 0

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.Genius will not; un-rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Votes: 0

Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do. Votes: 0

Successful individuals desire things, and then get busy turning them into realities, while a lot of unsuccessful people wish from things, but then spend the rest of their lives wishing for them. Votes: 0

I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby. Votes: 0

Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness. Votes: 0

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed. Votes: 0

Thus the word "inhuman", in this book's title, refers to the unconscionable and unsuccessful goal of bestializing (in the form of pets as well as beasts of burden) a class of human beings. Votes: 0

Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it. Votes: 0

According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame. Votes: 0

It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. . . .[Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated. Votes: 0

I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition. Votes: 0

So many stars who have shows are intimidated by having people around them be funnier than them. It's always the unsuccessful ones. Look at Seinfeld - he's great because he let everyone be hilarious. Votes: 0

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven. Votes: 0

The most frequent reason for unsuccessful advertising is advertisers who are so full of their own accomplishments (the world's best seed!) that they forget to tell us why we should buy (the world's best lawn!). Votes: 0

If one insists on calling all unsuccessful efforts failures the meaning of failure is really quite benign. When trying anything new or taking on any challenge, unsuccessful efforts are an essential aspect of skill building. Votes: 0