(24 quotes found)
“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 derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”
Calvin Coolidge
“To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
Erich Fromm
“Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach”
Will Rogers
“There is no use in walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.”
Mark Twain
“What do you call those things you find at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful Gangsters?”
Terry Pratchett
“The Fed has been singularly unsuccessful in cooling down the hot U.S. housing market, primarily because its rate hikes have had little impact on long-term interest rates — so far,”
Nariman Behravesh
“He gave chase and tried to get the kid his Xbox back, but he was unsuccessful.”
Kirby Nishikawa
“That was fascinating because you can follow the escape route that the robbers took (unsuccessfully), find the place where one of them dropped dead and track down the prison where some of them ended up. It was one of the most modern jails in Europe at the time - the cells were in a circle with the governor's house in the middle. It's a housing estate now with a green in the middle.”
Jonathan Foyle
“Netscape has been very unsuccessful at interacting with the trades, ... They don't understand how to do PR.”
David Strom
