Motivation Station

"Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us."

David Bach, Personal Finance Author, Speaker and Consultant

"When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen."

Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman

"I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn."

Herbie Hancock, musician

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

John Kennedy, 35th U.S. President

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."

Paul Harvey, broadcaster

"The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be."

David Ogilvy, Advertising Executive

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

Plato, philosopher

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that files feels the attraction of earth."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

George Woodberry, Poet

"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."

Rudyard Kipling, author

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner, Author

"Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin."

Kathleen Norris, Writer

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

Roger Bannister, Runner

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands, and hopes we've learned something from yesterday."

John Wayne, Actor

"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman

"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."

Wayne Dyer, Self-help Author

"When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them."

Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker

"It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class."

J. Willard Marriot

"The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory."

George Patton, General

"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader."

Dolly Parton, Singer

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. "

Dale Carnegie, Author

"Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure."

George Sand, novelist

"The key is not to prioritize what is on the schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

Henry Ford, Founder of the Ford Motor Company

"Dig the well before you are thirsty."

Chinese Proverb

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."

Willis R. Whitney

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than you think."

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. 
Colin Powell

"I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success, but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life."

Madeleine Albright, secretary of state

"Confidence... thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them, it cannot live." 
 Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. president

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

William Faulkner

"Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time."

Brian Tracy, Author

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."

Publilius Syrus

"Who has not served cannot command."

John Florio

"The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."

Henry Ford, carmaker

"Wake up with a smile and go after life... live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it."

Joe Knapp

"You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."

— Dale Carnegie

"If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances."

Alberto Salazar, American Marathon Runner

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

Coco Chanel, Fashion Designer

"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."

Diane Arbus, American Photographer

"Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get."

— Dale Carnegie

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. 
Aristotle

"I might have been born in a hovel, but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars."

Jacqueline Cochran, aviator

"The Only person who likes change is a wet baby."
Mark Twain

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

Mother Teresa, charity worker

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Bill Copeland