
Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.Chanakya
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Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.Chanakya

Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up.Lee Kuan Yew

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.Peter Singer

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.Fyodor Dostoevsky

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.Paulo Coelho

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.Muhammad Iqbal

Dream is not that which you see while sleeping; it is something that does not let you sleep.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.Plato

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.Václav Havel
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.Albert Schweitzer
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.Frank Herbert
By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.Nikos Kazantzakis
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.Maya Angelou
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.Winston Churchill
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.Calvin Coolidge
A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything.Donald Kircher
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.Thomas Hardy
Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could.Charles Dickens
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming moreAnthony Robbins
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.Rumi
Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.Robert Fulghum
Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.Lloyd Jones
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.Robert Anthony
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Thomas Chalmers
You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.Brian Tracy
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.Pearl Buck
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.Dalai Lama
In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.Aristotle
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.Satchel Paige
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.Sam Levenson
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.Pearl Buck
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.David Eddings
When anger use your energy to do something productive.C. Pulsifer
We are all something, but none of us are everything.Blaise Pascal
Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it.Eckhart Tolle
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.Edmond Rostand
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.Pablo Picasso
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, Something is out of tune.Carl Jung
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world any more. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.Albert Schweitzer
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.Holmes
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.Vaclav Havel
Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.Aristotle
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.Franklin D. Roosevelt
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.Coco Chanel
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.John Dewey
Respect is not something that you can ask for, buy or borrow. Respect is what you earn from each person no matter their background or status.Byron Pulsifer
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.Blaise Pascal
One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that ones life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.Hannah Senesh
I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.Lee Womack
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.Plato
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.Stephen Hawking
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.Stephen Hawking
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.Bill Nye
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.Allama Iqbal
Who will look after this house now? Every day, something or the other breaks.Jaun Elia
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.Elon Musk
The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.Elon Musk
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.Arnold Schwarzenegger
I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.Tom Cruise
Everybody has gone through something that has changed them in a way that they could never go back to the person they once were.Leonardo DiCaprio
That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things they've got symbols of.Marilyn Monroe
Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.Kalpana Chawla

No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.Seneca

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.Martin Buber

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.Ralph Waldo Emerson

A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.Bruce Lee

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us.John Lennon

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.Wayne Dyer

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.Wayne Dyer

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.Helen Keller