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.
Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.
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.
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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.
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