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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. -- H. L. Mencken
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. -- Bob Brown
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. -- Erich Fromm
I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman. -- Shakira
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. -- Anton Chekhov
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me? -- Brian Tracy
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success. -- Aamir Khan
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. -- Rod Taylor
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. -- Philip Warren Anderson
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. -- Ernestine Rose
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. -- Mohsin Hamid
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. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
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. -- Andy Rooney
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. -- Calvin Coolidge
The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination. -- Mary Kay Ash
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. -- Ambrose Bierce
Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles. -- Robin S. Sharma
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. -- Arabella Weir
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. -- John C. Maxwell
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' -- Brian Tracy
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. -- Calvin Coolidge
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. -- Hilaire Belloc
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. -- Henry Hazlitt
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. -- Ernest Hemingway
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. -- Pablo Picasso
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. -- T. Harv Eker
Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired. -- Robin Sharma
What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters? -- Terry Pratchett
Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum. -- H. L. Mencken
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful idiots are always asking, "What's in it for me"? -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me~? -- Brian Tracy
Unsuccessful headlines were not written without a strong appeal, but it was the wrong appeal for that product and that audience. -- John Caples
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification. -- Sydney Thompson Dobell
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. -- Napoleon Hill
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. -- Brian Tracy
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. -- Brian Tracy
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. -- Michael Josephson
I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful. -- Cat Deeley
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. -- Paul Sweeney
I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office. -- Jack L. Chalker
Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad. -- Mitch Kapor
Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh. -- Kumail Nanjiani
I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor. -- Peter Capaldi
I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. That's the fact. -- Mithun Chakraborty
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. -- John C. Maxwell
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. -- Frans de Waal
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. -- Marc Davis
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. -- John Paul DeJoria
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. -- Calvin Coolidge
To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful. -- Carl Jung
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent. -- Joe Strummer
The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves. -- Johnny Hunt
Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people won't do. -- Jeff Olson
Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do. -- John Spence
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird. -- Chester Bennington
The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family. -- Rebecca West
A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life. -- E. W. Howe
Successful people are willing to do things unsuccessful people will not do. -- John C. Maxwell
My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful. -- Huey Lewis
Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do. -- John Paul DeJoria
The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is their perceptions of reality. -- Ehab Atalla
Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time! -- John C. Maxwell
he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular -- Aldous Huxley
Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are. -- Frederick Buechner
Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision. -- Debasish Mridha
Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people. -- T. Harv Eker
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. -- Thomas Jefferson
The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal. -- Samuel Johnson
It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one. -- Michael Josephson
I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact. -- Mithun Chakraborty
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason. -- Mikhail Lermontov
Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two. -- Mark Twain
Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach -- Will Rogers
The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Most unsuccessful people let their fears and doubts have the final say in how they live their lives. -- Hal Elrod
I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful. -- Cornel West
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better. -- Jim Rohn
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My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth. -- Alexandra Stoddard
Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it. -- Karl Popper
Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them. -- John C. Maxwell
I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful. -- Nadya Suleman
It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful? -- V. S. Pritchett
The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world; the difference between them is what they see. -- Steve Maraboli
People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time. -- Rumer Godden
The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not. -- Darren Hardy
The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse. -- Jay Samit
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home. -- Mark Twain
There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character. -- Brian Tracy
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. -- Michael Phelps
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. -- Banksy
If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together. -- Fred Bear
The difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is that, one has preserved his potentials while the other has processed his own! -- Israelmore Ayivor
There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character. -- Brian Tracy
Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. -- J. G. Holland
Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied. -- Plato
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. -- William Cowper
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. -- Jarod Kintz
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. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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. -- Marlon Brando
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. -- Phyllis Diller
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. -- Greg Mottola
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 -- Ray Dalio
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. -- Madonna Ciccone
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. -- Lisa Ling
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. -- Russell Brand
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. --
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. -- Jack White
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. -- Philip Hammond
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. -- Dav Pilkey
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. -- Calvin Coolidge
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. -- Harvey Mackay
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. -- Edmond Mbiaka
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. -- Tracey Emin
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. -- Theodore Zeldin
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. -- David Foster Wallace
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. -- David Brion Davis

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