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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

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Robert H. Schuller

Motivational, Fail, Rather

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. - Stephen Sondheim

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. Stephen Sondheim

Art, Chaos, Itself

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love, Friendship, Form

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, Doubts, Might

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

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, Had, Would

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

Always, Been, Mine

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

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

Religion, Make-Up, Part

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

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

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

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

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. Kurt Huber

However, Justified

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

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. Napoleon Bonaparte

Small, Always, Level

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved. Alexander the Great

Like, Been, Still

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

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, Reach, Beyond

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

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, Could, Buy

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, Some, Very

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, Crazy People, Guns

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

Feel, Could, Mortals

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. Lee Iacocca

Salt, Deal, Rather

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try. Kanye West

Think, Always, Everybody

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