Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
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.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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.
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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.
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.
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.
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