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The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art,… — Jack White
Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach — Will Rogers
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. — Erich Fromm
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;… — Calvin Coolidge
I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful. — Cat Deeley
I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over… — Mohsin Hamid
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… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. — H. L. Mencken
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… — Andy Rooney
I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman. — Shakira
Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him… — Adlai E. Stevenson
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. — Banksy
I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take… — Madonna Ciccone
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. — Hilaire Belloc
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same… — Alain de Botton
In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but… — J.R. Miller
When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business. — Henry Hazlitt
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. — John C. Maxwell
A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather… — Karl Popper
Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood'… — Thomas Merton
he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular — Aldous Huxley
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and… — Anton Chekhov
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better. — Jim Rohn
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. — Bob Brown

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