"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus on achievement
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"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

Anderson, Walter on risk
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"If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe."

Allen, Woody on risk
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"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

Ali, Muhammad on risk
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"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."

Alda, Alan on risk
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"If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done."

Peale, Norman Vincent on procrastination
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"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."

Johnson, Lady Bird on fear
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"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."

John Paul II on fear
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"Feel the fear and do it anyway."

Jeffers, Susan on fear
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"An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it."

Ash, Roy on risk
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"We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures."

Burke, James E. on risk
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"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.[Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on doubt
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"Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too."

Kiam, Victor on risk
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"It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late."

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats on risk
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"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"

Johnson, Jimmy on risk
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"One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure."

Gardner, John W. on risk
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"Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

Frost, Robert on risk
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"Perseverance and audacity generally win!"

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe on risk   

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."

Corneille, Pierre on risk
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"Action cures fear, inaction creates terror."

Horton, Doug on fear   

"Do what you fear most and you control fear."

Hopkins, Tom on fear   

"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."

Montapert, Alfred A. on achievement
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

Kettering, Charles F. on achievement
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"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."

Jowett, Benjamin on achievement
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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal on achievement
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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Gogh, Vincent Van on achievement
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"I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement."

Ovid on achievement
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."

Plutarch on achievement
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"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."

Marden, Orison Swett on fear   

"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."

Maclaine, Shirley on fear
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"It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

Churchill, Winston on achievement
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"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."

Bennett, Thomas A. on achievement
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"Never mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on achievement
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"Don't mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on achievement
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"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

Thatcher, Margaret on achievement
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"The journey is the reward."

Proverb, Chinese on achievement
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"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate"

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