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Famous Motivational Quotes

– “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Charles R. Swindoll

– “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” – Jesse Jackson

– “The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

– “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo

– “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci

– “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

– “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

– “We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.” – Peter F. Drucker

– “Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer

– “You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.” – William Boetcker

Risk Quotes

– “If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.” – Win Borden

– “He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.” – Oscar Wilde

– “Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.” – Frederick Smith

– “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo

– “Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.” – Gael Greene

– “If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” – Annie Dillard

– “Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.” – Herodotus