“Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting.”

“I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness.”
“Some things last.”
I faced him. “Really? And just what would that be?”
“The things that matter.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

“Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.”

Philip Roth book The Human Stain

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.”

Anthony Stewart Head (1954) English actor

“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

“There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

“What is the government? nothing, unless supported by opinion.”

Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French

“Nothing happens unless first we dream.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor