Underachiever Quotes & Sayings

No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have. — John Wooden

Mari was what was known as an underachiever, which even an underachiever knew was sociology code for "overfailer." She was famous in the Lore for the simple fact that one day she might be worth being famous. All hype-no substance. That was Mari. — Kresley Cole

Any other mislabeled underachievers around here? Speak up now or suffer the consquences," he said.
Emily blinked. "other mislabeled underachievers?"
That's correct," Maxwell said. "I, for one, have definitely been mislabeled. I am not an underachiever. I simply refuse to waste my time on subjects which will be of no use to me in my future, such as math and science. — Joan Lowery Nixon

In school, I was an underachiever. — Henry Winkler

If it turns out that there is a God ... the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. — Woody Allen

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever. — Danny Bonaduce

I admit it in school I was an underachiever and it was so easy to do. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Being the underachiever in a family of overachievers was hell. — Sandra Marton

The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death. — Woody Allen

Hitler had the right idea, he was just an underachiever. — Bill Hicks

Throughout his life a case study underachiever, Sully - people still remarked - was nobody's fool, a phrase that Sully no doubt appreciated without ever sensing its literal application - that at sixty, he was divorced from his own wife, carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, estranged from his son, devoid of self-knowledge, badly crippled and virtually unemployable - all of which he stubbornly confused with independence. — Richard Russo

I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is that he's a bit of an underachiever. — Woody Allen

New Orleans was the ideal town for an underachiever, a place where whiling away Saturdays on the stoop or on projects so underproductive they wouldn't count as hobbies in other cities was the norm. This environment suited me and other people who, like me, wanted to appear more industrious than average without doing much work. — Sara Roahen

It is better to be a failed happy person than to be a successful underachiever. — Laksh Kishore

I don't want an underachiever working on my car's transmission. Why would I want someone regular sitting in the Oval Office? Sorry, give me somebody who has demonstrated a capacity to excel. — John Ridley