Top 238 Unsuccessful Quotes & Sayings

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

If you don't try your hardest, and you're unsuccessful, you always have that excuse.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

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

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

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.

My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

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

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

The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, the other guy has the best territory. The Successful Salesperson says, every territory is the best one. The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, that company will never buy. The Successful Salesperson says, I can make that company buy.

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

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

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

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

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

I learnt so much from all my films, successful or unsuccessful.

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

I've played in successful sides, and you smell it. When dinner finishes at 7:45 P.M., and you're playing in an unsuccessful side, everyone goes up to their own room.

The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not.

Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

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.

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

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

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.

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

You can be gay and be proud of that and not have to worry about being unsuccessful or unaccepted.

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

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

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

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

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

I have done my fair share of good roles in unsuccessful films. There's no point in that.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.

Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.

I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact.

Even an unsuccessful Olympic bid can be the source of change within a city if organizers adhere to their vision.

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

The war on drugs - a big-government product if there ever was one - has been wildly unsuccessful, by any metric.

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

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

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

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.

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

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

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

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