Motivation Station

"You are the masterpiece of your own life; you are the Michelangelo of your experience. The David that you are sculpting is you. And you do it with your thoughts."

— Dr. Joe Vitale

"You can't do it unless you can imagine it."

George Lucas, director

“If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!”
~ W. Clement Stone

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

William Channing, theologian

"The most dangerous question a prospect or customer asks is "Why should I?" And he may ask it more than once... The product and its communication stream must continue to provide him with both rational and emotional answers." 

 Lester Wunderman, marketing pioneer

"Happiness is only a byproduct of successful living."

Austen Riggs, psychiatrist

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
~Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill, British prime minister

"Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90% of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration."

Cate Blanchett, actress

"When you are in the zone, your intuition comes to the forefront, ... Your intuition will guide you. It is your best friend. It has information your mind does not have. When you are a zone performer — no matter what it is you do — you are operating on intuition and you have an unfair advantage
over the competition."

— Jim Fannin

"Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential."

Charles de Gaulle, president of France

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

Demosthenes, statesman

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be."
~Marcel Pagnol

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance."

H. Jackson Brown, Author

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

Albert Einstein

"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 Buonarroti

"A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms."

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Professor of Psychology and Management

"Knowing how to communicate with others - is the road to a happy life, knowing how to communicate with yourself - is the road to Bliss!"
~Ellie Walsh

"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. "

Sir Edmund Hilary, First to reach the summit of Mount Everest

"Knowing how to communicate with others - is the road to a happy life, knowing how to communicate with yourself - is the road to Bliss!"
~Ellie Walsh

"Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass."

Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State

"Be fully aware. Be engaged. Remind yourself
to live in the present moment, The Zone."

— Jim Fannin

"Knowing how to communicate with others - is the road to a happy life, knowing how to communicate with yourself - is the road to Bliss!"
 ~Ellie Walsh

"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think."

Thomas J. Watson, Former President of IBM

"Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before."
~Franz Kafka

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. 
George Gissing 

"The only thing complaining does is to convince other people you are not in control and that you let less than positive circumstances control your mood and outlook."
~Author Unknown

"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky."
~Buddha

"Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your talent, there is only one way to obtain it-work."

Jack Nicklaus, golfer

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."
~Richard M. DeVos

"A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets rough. "

Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president

"The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game."

Jack Welch, Executive

"The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart."

Robert Ingersoll, orator

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. "
~ T. S. Eliot

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."

Leon Suenens, Clergyman

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."
~Burton Hills

"Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance..and courage. "

Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister

"You will make more friends in a week by getting yourself interested in other people than you can in a year by trying to get other people interested in you."
~Arnold Bennett

"Our aspirations are our possibilities."

Robert Browning

"Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals."
~Paul J. Meyer

"The pro is the person who has all the hassles, obstacles, and disappointing frustrations that everyone else has. yet continues to persist, does the job, and makes it look easy."

David Cooper, Sales Trainer

Fred, you come up with some of the greatest wisdoms!  I just love your post today about "The pro".  How true it is!

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thank you Cathy, it is allways good to hear your positive staements.

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

Arthur Ashe, Tennis Player

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing,

The next to best thing is the wrong thing,

and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants."

Isaac Newton, scientist

"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now."
~Denis Waitley

"The most dangerous question a prospect or customer asks is "Why should I?" And he may ask it more than once... The product and its communication stream must continue to provide him with both rational and emotional answers."

Lester Wunderman, marketing pioneer

"I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities -- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. "

Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. president