Motivation Station

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. "

Anonymous

"Parents can only give good advice .but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

Ann Frank, writer

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

Demosthenes, statesman

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."

Orison Swett Marden, writer

"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."

Brian Tracy, Author

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."

Bruce Barton, Executive

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

Michael Altshuler

"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea."

Napoleon Hill, author

"Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning."

Winston Churchill, British prime minister

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it."

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States of America

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."

Orison Swett Marden, writer

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."

-- George Allen, football coach

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."

George Allen, football coach

"There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen."

Hugh Prather

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."

Douglas MacArthur, General

"Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."

Mary Bethune, educator

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

John F. Kennedy, 35 President of the United States

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

Erica Jong, Author

"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking."

Anita Roddick, Entrepreneur and Activist

"The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation."

Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President

"In calm water every ship has a good captain."

Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th U.S. President

"When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value."

Thomas Edison, inventor

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. "

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"It's not where you start - it's where you finish that counts."

Zig Ziglar, Author

"Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks."

Brian Tracy, motivational coach

"Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement."

Claude M. Bristol, Author

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little 'extra'."

Jimmy Johnson, American Football Coach

"The entrepreneur is... the most important player in the building of the global economy. So much so that big companies are reconstituting themselves as networks of entrepreneurs."

John Naisbitt, writer

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

Brian Tracy, Author

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."

Muhammad Ali, boxer

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the staircase."

Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader

"Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself."

Rick Pitino

"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."

Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker

"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

Walter Elliott

"We must take change by the hand or rest assuredly, change will take us by the throat."

Winston Churchill, Former British prime minister

"Each man (is) the architect of his own fortune."

Appius Caecus, builder

"The most important thing about goals is... having one."

Geoffry F. Abert

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

Leo Tolstoy, Author

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

George Bernard Shaw, Playwright

"Every mistake that I made - and we all make mistakes - came because I didn't take the time to get the facts. I didn't drive hard enough."

Charles Knight, publisher

"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

George Washington Carver, botanist

"You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards."

Brian Tracy, Author

"If you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. "
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady

"Believe you will be successful and you will."

Dale Carnegie, motivational speaker

"Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator."

Yogi Berra

"A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone." 

Robert Kiyosaki, Motivational Speaker

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. "

Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Activist