Unsuccessful Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1973). “Letters of Anton Chekhov”, Viking Adult

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• Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• An authentic response to who God is and what He's done...What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an ability for our community to voice things back to God. If it's unsuccessful in that, then it's just self-indulgence.

  Crowder

  Self, Voice, Community

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• Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

  Banksy

  Art, People, House

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory.

  J.R. Miller

  Inspirational, Strength, God

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• A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.

  Karl Popper

  Crush, Successful, Men

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.557, Routledge

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• Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts against the oppressions of the government. The latter are virtues, yet have furnished more victims to the executioner than the former. Real treasons are rare; oppressions frequent. The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Real, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.353

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• The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

  Michael Phelps

  Success, People, Inspire

  Michael Phelps (2012). “No Limits: The Will to Succeed”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

  Carl Jung

  Normal, Aim, Ultimate

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• If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.

  Fred Bear

  Elude You, Together, Waste

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• When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Successful, Controlled

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• Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time!

  John C. Maxwell

  Successful, People, Use

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.115, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach

  Will Rogers

  Successful, College, Hunting

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• What I'm most deeply grateful for is that God's love for us, approval of us, and commitment to us does not ride on our resolve but on Jesus' resolve for us. The gospel is the good news announcing Jesus' infallible devotion to us despite our inconsistent devotion to Him. The gospel is not a command to hang on to Jesus; it's a promise that no matter how weak and unsuccessful our faith and efforts may be, God is always holding on to us.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Grateful, Commitment

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• Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

  William Cowper

  War, Successful, Solitude

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• The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Unhappy, Use, Tomorrow

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• It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .

  Samuel Smiles

  Success, Honesty, Character

  Samuel Smiles (2005). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance”, p.287, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

  Robin Sharma

  Jealous, Successful, People

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Aug 06, 2013

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• When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Philosophy, Successful, Government

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.45, Crown Business

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• I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

  Aamir Khan

  Giving, Film, Importance

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