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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller
Motivational
,
Great
,
Succeed
,
Nothing
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh
Life
,
Courage
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Anything
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Had
,
Would
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Good
,
Win
,
Lose
,
Us
,
Traitors
,
Make
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis
Work
,
Motto
,
Impossible
,
Always
,
Order
A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
Abraham Lincoln
Man
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Day
,
Tree
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Fruit
,
Process
,
Watches
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
History
,
You
,
Political
,
Insurance
,
Farm
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.
Richard Dawkins
Change
,
Creativity
,
Random
,
Internet
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Charles Simmons
Determination
,
Power
,
Go
,
Never
,
Your
The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.
Richard Branson
Life
,
Work
,
Fly
,
World
,
Finding
,
Way
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill
Good
,
Freedom
,
Name
,
Long
,
Way
,
Others
In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.
Adam Grant
Help Others
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Support
,
People
,
Help
,
End
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Women
,
Romantic
,
Men
,
Bold
,
Psycho
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells
Socialism
,
America
,
New
,
Achieve
,
Plans
No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
Harry Houdini
Good
,
Teeth
,
Bite
,
Iron
,
Off
,
He
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett
Fear
,
Others
,
Only
,
Greedy
,
Simply
If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
Anne Bronte
Son
,
Path
,
Alone
,
Walk
,
World
,
You
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett
Money
,
Day
,
Stock Market
,
Never
,
Buy
The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
Ben Shapiro
Life
,
Marriage
,
Growth
,
Tree
,
Blue
,
Job
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Christopher Hitchens
History
,
Health
,
Faith
,
Religion
,
Care
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
Inspirational
,
Great
,
You
,
Fail
,
Could
Hillary Clinton is a corrupt career politician who has recklessly handled classified information in an attempt to avoid accountability and put American lives at risk, including those of my former colleagues. She fails the basic tests of judgment and ethics any candidate for president must meet.
Evan McMullin
Ethics
,
Colleagues
,
Accountability
,
Risk
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel de Cervantes
Success
,
Impossible
,
Order
,
Absurd
,
Must
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love
,
Friendship
,
Beauty
,
Love Is
,
Form
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
M. C. Escher
Me
,
Impossible
,
Think
,
Achieve
,
Go
,
Will
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
John Henry Newman
Change
,
Facts
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Find
,
Things
,
Us
,
Cannot
If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
Maya Angelou
Talent
,
Electricity
,
You
,
Done
,
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