#unsuccessful

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

— Bob Brown

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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. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ↗

— Brian Tracy

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

— Erich Fromm

#criminal #revolutionary #statesman #successful #unsuccessful

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

— Chester Bennington

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

— Anton Chekhov

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

— Arabella Weir

#charted #crushing #frequently #just #life

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. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#always #because #being #fired #getting

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

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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#historian #novelist #unsuccessful