Unsuccessful Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Artist, Winning, People

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• Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Success, Failure, Government

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2436, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

  Shakira

  Dad, Thinking, Businessman

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

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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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• Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Brother, Father, Agriculture

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Creatures, Mortals

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• President [Barack] Obama - he was unsuccessful in his efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, but he still used the Labor Department in other ways to try to boost paychecks for American workers.

  Rachel Martin

  Effort, Trying, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

  Terry Pratchett

  Rivers, Stones, Frogs

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld”, p.44, Random House

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• The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series.

  Greg Mottola

  Firsts, Potters, Harry Potter Series

  Source: collider.com

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• An unsuccessful manager blames failure on his obligations; the effective manager turns them to his own advantage. A speech is a chance to lobby...a visit to an important customer a chance to extract trade information.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Important, Speech, Information

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• If one insists on calling all unsuccessful efforts failures the meaning of failure is really quite benign. When trying anything new or taking on any challenge, unsuccessful efforts are an essential aspect of skill building.

  Michael Josephson

  Skills, Effort, Challenges

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• As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

  Bob Feller

  Baseball, Team, Player

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