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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

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

Lose, Might, Doubts

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, Fail, Rather

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

Freedom, Which, Obtain

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

Courage, Would, Had

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

Fruit, Wait, Him

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

Meme, Accuracy, Idea

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

Work, Finding, Balloons

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 Thing

The Gun Control Act of 1968 was an attempt to impose order. It set up the Federal Firearms License (FFL) system; gun stores would have to become licensed, and they would have to follow certain rules. Felons, illegal immigrants, and crazy people would be prohibited from buying guns. Jeanne Marie Laskas

Gun, Guns, Crazy People

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

Fear, Greedy, Only

As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone. Andy Goldsworthy

Beneath, All My Work

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

Achieve, Deal, Policies

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

Always, Been, Mine

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

Insurance, Laws, Social

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

Through, Leading, Firmly

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, Absurd

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition. Sebastian Thrun

Think, I Think, Cognition

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. James Buchanan

Been, Dispute, Maxim

Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't. Kirk Cameron

Death, Woman, Till

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

Power, Never, Might

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

City, Beyond, Reach

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, Lies

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Nature, Unity, Human Beings

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. William Butler Yeats

Religious, Kind, Persecution

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

Next, Buy, Could

When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else. Ta-Nehisi Coates

Education, Flag, Confederate

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