Top 55 Unsuccessful Quotes

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.

Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people’s names and titles.

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.

I’ve been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it’s almost like my hobby.

If you are being criticised, and you are unsuccessful, then that can be a low for you. But if you are doing good and still being slammed, then it is good.

It is not altogether shyness that now makes me unsuccessful in company. Sometimes it is a state of mind that is three parts meditation, that will not free the thoughts until their attendant trains are prepared to follow them.

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

Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.

I am the most successful unsuccessful actor in New York. And I guess with that, maybe apparent only to myself, there started to be a very subtle but unmistakable whiff of entitlement, bitterness, jealousy. I was not respecting the work.

ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful.

So many people wait around for funding, and if they’re unsuccessful, they don’t make the film; if you’ve got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There’s always a way of doing it; you’ve just got to find it.

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.

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

My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

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.

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

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

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

I tried to find a social niche at Harvard – a group, my group – but I was unsuccessful.

When I had my baby, it really freed my mind. No matter how well you do or how unsuccessful you are, there’s still somebody who thinks you’re the best in the world.

Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.

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

I’ve been just unsuccessful enough not to have been given a big opportunity too soon.

Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful.

Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It’s unsuccessful if they don’t laugh.

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

I went through years of unsuccessful fertility treatments, first in my hometown of D.C., then in New York City, where it finally happened – I got pregnant with my son, my miracle boy.

During the 19th century, Britain fought two wars in unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the Afghans. When Britain finally drew a border between India and Afghanistan in 1893, Pashtun tribes in southern Afghanistan were cut off from related tribes across the border in what was then India and is now Pakistan.

You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced.

Find somebody who has been successful, and learn how to do it. Find somebody who has been unsuccessful, and learn how not to do it. The clues are there. Find ’em.

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

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I’m looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.

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

The first point to remember is that attempts to clone mice have actually been very unsuccessful for at least a decade. Sheep have been successful. So one asks, ‘Where do humans lie?’ Most people think they are somewhere between the two, but at least there’s a reasonable chance they might be clone-able.

It doesn’t matter how successful or how unsuccessful a team is. It can all change with one pick.

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

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

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.

If a team needs new facilities, and they’ve been unsuccessful for a long period of time, and the local community is not being responsive, then I think it’s a possibility that team might get a vote to relocate.

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

I wrote a few unsuccessful screenplays before I wrote ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.’ I wrote them as television plays that never got made. I’m glad I wrote them – I think it was a good experience.

I know that one’s visibility is very high on television, even with an unsuccessful show! With a successful role, it’s even higher.

Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally.

Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus.

So many stars who have shows are intimidated by having people around them be funnier than them. It’s always the unsuccessful ones. Look at Seinfeld – he’s great because he let everyone be hilarious.

There are so many people around who are unsuccessful in life. They still bother to pinpoint because they think that if they are not able to do anything, they should humiliate those who are doing something.

When I decided to work with Krishna Vamsi, people around me were apprehensive about my decision. They warned me that I shouldn’t work with an unsuccessful director.

Why doesn’t anyone care that the schools in Harlem have been unsuccessful for half a century? Why is this not a big deal? To me, it’s a terrible deal.

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

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

One of the frustrations of the Republicans is that they have been mostly unsuccessful in equating the word Clinton with Mafia, which, to them, seems so head-smackingly obvious.

It’s a myth that you’ll know the box office result of any film. I don’t think anybody can predict a film’s fate accurately, otherwise nobody would make unsuccessful or flop films.

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