Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.
The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.
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.
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.
Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.
Successful people are willing to do things unsuccessful people will not do.
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
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.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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.
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.
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.
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.
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.
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