Unsuccessful Quotes

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

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 31, 2012

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• The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

  Erich Fromm

  Successful, Political, Nerd

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.262, Open Road Media

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• Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

  Bob Brown

  Inspirational, Success, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Determination, Successful, Differences

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• 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

  Success, Men, Genius

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspiring, Successful, People

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• 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

  Men, Llamas, Expression

  More Beasts for Worse Children (1897) "The Llama"

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  Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 12, 2016

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• Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Procrastination

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• There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Joe Strummer

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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• Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Successful, People, Want

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• 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

  Motivational, Successful, People

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

  H. L. Mencken

  History, Historical, Novelists

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• 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

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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

  Anton Chekhov

  Eye, Successful, Judging

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• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

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• 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

  Successful, Wife, Suffering

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

  Arabella Weir

  Crush, Actors, Life Is

  "Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2006.

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• 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

  Actors, Matter, Stuff

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