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

  John Paul DeJoria

  Successful, People, Want

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Criminals, Modesty

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

  Frederick Buechner

  Envy, Desire, Consuming

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Successful, Men

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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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• A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

  E. W. Howe

  Success, Men, Realizing

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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 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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• 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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• Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

  H. L. Mencken

  History, Historical, Novelists

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

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• 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

  Music, Careers, Air

  Andy Rooney (2012). “Not That You Asked...”, p.264, Random House

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