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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

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

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare

Good, Win, Lose, Us, Doubts, Traitors

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? - Robert H. Schuller

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? Robert H. Schuller

Inspirational, Great, You, Fail, Would

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. Andy Goldsworthy

Nature, Growth, Time, Art, City, Stone

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, World, Fly, Finding, Way

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Vincent Van Gogh

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent Van Gogh

Life, Courage, Anything, Had, Would

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

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, Own

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Bette Davis

Work, Motto, Impossible, Always, Improve

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, Faith, Health, Religion, Care

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. Mike Tyson

Feel, Muscle, Force, Even, Enter, Realm

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, Political, Security, You, Labor

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. - Charles Simmons

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. Charles Simmons

Determination, Power, Never, Go, Your

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. - Miguel de Cervantes

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. Miguel de Cervantes

Success, Impossible, Order, Absurd, Must

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

Tree, Man, Day, Fruit, Process, Watches

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous. Edmund Hillary

Mountains, Challenge, Great, Climb

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. Charles Dudley Warner

People, Deception, Matter, Always

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb. Elon Musk

Light, Space, Goal, You, Why, Never

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. Richard Dawkins

Life, Justice, Words, Universe, Nothing

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. J. R. R. Tolkien

Language, Explain, Dislike, Intentional

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time. Brene Brown

Time, Trust, Divorce, Connection, You

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior. Jack Schwartz

People, Behavior, Genocide, Alter

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. Theodor Adorno

Thought, Logic, Own, Through, Break

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it. - Mahatma Gandhi

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it. Mahatma Gandhi

Goal, Reach, Glory, Lies, Reaching

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. Albert Einstein

Wisdom, Power, Short, Successful, Only

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. Warren Buffett

Fear, Others, Greedy, Only, Fearful

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