Unsuccessful Quotes

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

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

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.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

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

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

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

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

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.

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

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.

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

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

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

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.

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.