For me, I haven't succeeded in any way whatsoever.
I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
… a whippersnapper …. He never said a word of importance in the Senate and he never did a thing.
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Haters...are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
Just look at the past. Hillary Clinton is done nothing. She's been there for 35 years. She's done nothing.
When I was growing up, I wasn't particularly great at anything. I was in my own world, and my teachers felt I'd never reach my potential. Even in sports, I'd only play team games because I felt I was not good enough to outshine anyone.
What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?
No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.
A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success.
I've enjoyed so little success as a professional player.
To accomplish nothing and die of the strain
It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.
All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.
International politics attracts politicians who talk a good game, but whose achievements are often slender.
If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
I was a sickly child, not very strong physically. I wasn't really the greatest in school. I didn't really excel in anything particularly. But I was happy with who I was.
People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.
I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.
