Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
To blame my failures on the lack of resources is less about the lack of resources and more about my unwillingness to access those resources.
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles.
I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.
Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.