Unsuccessful Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Beauty, Successful, Facts

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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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• WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Success, Wall, Heaven

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.235, University of Georgia Press

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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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• Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

  H. L. Mencken

  History, Historical, Novelists

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

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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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• 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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• Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Creatures, Mortals

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• 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

  People, Email, Watches

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

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• I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.

  Cornel West

  Blessed, Energy, Bills

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Commitment, Successful, Thinking

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Nov 17, 2014

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• Most unsuccessful people let their fears and doubts have the final say in how they live their lives.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, People, Doubt

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Aug 05, 2013

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

  E. W. Howe

  Success, Men, Realizing

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• 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

  Inspirational, Successful, Order

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 18, 2013

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• Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.

  Alain de Botton

  Jobs, Book, Holiday

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• 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

  Success, School, Mean

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• I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close - a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.

  Bette Midler

  Sex, Couple, Cadillacs

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• The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

  E. M. Forster

  Strength, Success, Taken

  E. M. Forster (2012). “Howards End”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful.

  Huey Lewis

  Kissing, First Kiss, Firsts

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• I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, Punishment

  Letter to James Madison, 30 Jan. 1787

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• My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Feelings, Denial, Miserable

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