Quotes About Unsuccessful

#1. Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.

Arthur Brisbane

#2. Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.

Kumail Nanjiani

#3. The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.

Michael Josephson

#4. Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful.

Philip Hammond

#6. The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves.

Johnny Hunt

#7. 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

#8. Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent a lot of money from becoming a little.

Fred Schwed Jr.

#9. God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though
and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

David Foster Wallace

#10. Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.

John Locke

#11. The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

Rebecca West

#12. 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

#13. I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.

Peter Capaldi

#14. she was only here because she didn't have the guts to be anywhere else. Because she felt like the last guest at an unsuccessful party, too guilt-ridden to leave.

Lisa Jewell

#15. To be normal is the ideal aim for the unsuccessful.

C. G. Jung

#16. Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

Charles R. Swindoll

#17. I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

Madonna

#18. Revenge is a frequent motive in suicides, you know. They feel it is someone's fault their lives have been unsuccessful, and they want to inflict this guilt on others by committing suicide.

Jo Nesbo

#19. There has been an unwise and spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to grow a goatee, hence a fluffy little tuft of something or other, just underneath the centre of his lower lip, that any mother would want to rub off with a bit of spit.

Nick Hornby

#20. We'll all be better off the day we stop letting unhappy, unsuccessful people tell us how to be happy and successful. You already know the way ... follow it.

Steve Maraboli

#21. It didn't take much to turn a man solitary-being the new guy too often, being controversial now and then, a couple of unsuccessful attempts at a lasting relationship with a woman ...

Robyn Carr

#22. Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Bob Brown

#23. The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Erich Fromm

#24. It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.

Michael Josephson

#25. To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Carl Jung

#26. Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.

Ken Follett

#27. People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

Rumer Godden

#28. A cruel queen does not mean an unsuccessful one. Under her guidance, Kenettra changed from a glittering gem into a clouded stone, and her empire became one to rule all others, a darkness that stretched from sun, to sea, to sky.
- The Empire of the Wolf, translation by Tarsa Mehani

Marie Lu

#29. Morality, Sir, is the monologue of the unexcited and the unexcitable, the revenge of the unsuccessful, the punishment of those who tried and failed, or who never had the courage to try at all.

Michael Dobbs

#30. When you think that it's too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful

Ray Dalio

#31. Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.

Twyla Tharp

#32. There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

Mark Twain

#33. 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

#34. The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.

Paul Keating

#35. It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

V.S. Pritchett

#36. Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally.

Frans De Waal

#37. I stand alone, a woman, a girl, and a child.
Unsuccessful at my first attempts of a poem
I am miserable when I fail.

Abigail George

#38. Are you a mortal being? Then you are an unsuccessful being!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#39. Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.

Tamsin Greig

#40. 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

#41. Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.

Karl Popper

#42. You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced.

Tom Sizemore

#43. The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

Arabella Weir

#44. I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what they know or how smart they are; it has everything to do with how healthy they are.

Patrick Lencioni

#45. Few things rival the torment of the once-famous actor, the fallen politician or, as Tocqueville might have remarked, the unsuccessful American.

Alain De Botton

#46. 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

#47. All successful marriages are based on some necessary hypocrisies. It's only the unsuccessful ones where people always tell the truth to each other. The

Philip Kerr

#48. Try not to scream when I break your bones. It bothers me. You can cry if you want; that's fine."
He burst out laughing. I didn't realize that was a funny statement.
"Got it," he said, trying unsuccessful to cover his grin. "Screaming, no. Crying, yes

Amy Tintera

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

Samuel Johnson

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

John Paul DeJoria

#51. Successful people don't have a limit whereas unsuccessful people often draw a line of limit

Santosh Avvannavar

#52. According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

Hannah Arendt

#53. When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that is not mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce, which allows the unsuccessful combatant to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.

Edward Gibbon

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.

Lisa Ling

#57. Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Robin Sharma

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

Banksy

#61. The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

John C. Maxwell

#62. 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

#63. Elizabeth is my happiness, he thought again. "I could hate her for what she did to me."
"Because of one unsuccessful beheading?" She tapped her claw to her chin. "Wow. I never thought you were such a pussy. I'm rethinking our friendship.

Kresley Cole

#64. Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

John C. Maxwell

#65. Remember: People who tell you it cannot be done almost always are unsuccessful people, are strictly average or mediocre at best in terms of accomplishment.

David J. Schwartz

#66. The Coroner said graciously:
"I have heard of you, M. Poirot," and Poirot made an unsuccessful attempt to look modest.

Agatha Christie

#67. Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people won't do.

Jeff Olson

#68. 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

#69. I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.

Cat Deeley

#70. Thus the word "inhuman", in this book's title, refers to the unconscionable and unsuccessful goal of bestializing (in the form of pets as well as beasts of burden) a class of human beings.

David Brion Davis

#71. If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.

Marlon Brando

#72. BORN UNDER A THREEPENNY HALFPENNY PLANET, NEVER TO BE WORTH A GROAT. Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or profession. BOTCH.

Francis Grose

#73. Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness.

Theodore Zeldin

#74. SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE HAVE SUCCESSFUL HABITS Unsuccessful People Don't!

Jack Canfield

#75. Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF ... you use it.

Al Duncan

#76. One of the major differences between successful and unsuccessful people is that the former look for problems to resolve, whereas the latter make every attempt to avoid them.

Grant Cardone

#77. When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.

Anthony Bourdain

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

Hal Elrod

#79. Successful people are willing to do things unsuccessful people will not do.

John C. Maxwell

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

Cornel West

#81. True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

#82. It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments ... [Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated.

Robert H. Goddard

#83. If you're somebody when you're successful, what are you when you're unsuccessful?

Carol S. Dweck

#84. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful

Russell Brand

#85. Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.

Sydney Thompson Dobell

#86. At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

Marc Davis

#87. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is their perceptions of reality.

Ehab Atalla

#88. So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it.

Joel Edgerton

#89. 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,

#90. 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

#91. In this hospitable world it is much harder to be unsuccessful than successful.

Debasish Mridha

#92. There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

Jon Hunstman

#93. 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

#94. Isn't my fur stole pitiful? How unsuccessful can a girl look? People think I'm wearing anchovies. The worst of it is, I trapped these under my own sink.

Phyllis Diller

#95. 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

#96. Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

Mitch Kapor

#97. 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

#98. I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.

Jack L. Chalker

#99. I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. That's the fact.

Mithun Chakraborty

#100. I do not think I have 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. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]

Ernest Hemingway,