Unsuccessful Quotes - Page 4

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

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Feelings, Denial, Miserable

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• I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, Punishment

  Letter to James Madison, 30 Jan. 1787

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• 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

  Competition, Luck, Honor

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Jobs, Successful, Wish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Husband, Needs, Mets

  "Lisa Ling ‘Our America’: Journalist Talks Pregnancy, Gets Candid For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Kari Friedlander, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• 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.

  Russell Brand

  Mean, Tides, Violence

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.82, Ballantine Books

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• For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

  David Hume

  Discovery, Despair, Age

  David Hume (1999). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.59, Open Court

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• I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.

  Ai Weiwei

  Successful, Thinking, Giving

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• 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.

  Harvey Mackay

  Work, Lying, Successful

  Harvey Mackay (1999). “Pushing the Envelope: All the Way to the Top”

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• 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.

  Brian Tracy

  Successful, Guy, Territory

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

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Years, Three, Cost

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• 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

  Father, Book, Oysters

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.

  Nadya Suleman

  Years, Trying, Seven

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Is this so-called [Republican Party] hate wing that is so angry at all the things that have - all the changes that have happened in America, this is what they respond to.And I think it`s dangerous for the country, I also think it`s going to be incredibly unsuccessful in the general election.

  Howard Dean

  Country, Hate, Party

  The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, www.msnbc.com. December 23, 2015.

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• I wrote a number of poems about Kah Tai lagoon, when Safeway was building that huge, ugly store down there where I used to love to watch the birds nest. That political poem, or environmental poem, was unsuccessful because Safeway built there anyway. And yet the poem has something to say today, as it did then. And I speak here only of my own poems. The agenda for every poet has to be different because most of us write from direct human experience in the world.

  Sam Hamill

  Writing, Numbers, Bird

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• 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

  Envy, Emulation, Sin

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

  Darren Hardy

  Successful, Differences, People

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• Unsuccessful people think about what they don’t want most of the time. They talk about problems, listen to news & gossip, & spend their time blaming circumstances, situations & others. Successful people think about what they want & how they will get it. They are intensely focused on their goals & the information needed to help obtain them. Which person are YOU?

  Darren Hardy

  Successful, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Jun 26, 2014

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• The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.

  Robert Haugen

  Running, Mistake, Successful

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 142, 1999.

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• Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

  J. G. Holland

  Failure, Men, Use

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

  Rumer Godden

  Successful, Should Have, People

  Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”

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• Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the recognized possibility of failure in fact occurs. But over time, more thoughtful decision-making will lead to better overall results, and more thoughtful decision-making can be encouraged by evaluating decisions on how well they were made rather than on outcome.

  Robert Rubin

  Successful, Thoughtful, Decision

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• When will we get done with the fool idea that the way to make a party grow is to scare away everybody who has an extra dollar in his pocket? God forbid that the Democratic Party should become a mere gathering of the unsuccessful!

  John W. Davis

  Party, Ideas, Scare

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• 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

  Life, Running, Successful

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• Successful people are usually more lively than those who are unsuccessful. The quickening of the spirit they feel comes out of their creativity, and success detaches them from the more rigid outlook on life - it puts them in the flow. So the shakers and movers, by their very nature, are moving faster, taking more risks, and investing more in the world than their less active counterparts.

  Stuart Wilde

  Success, Moving, Creativity

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.52, Hay House, Inc

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