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Below are some interesting quotes received from Brian Tracy in e-mails. Brian has a great site (www.briantracy.com) with great information.  The source of the quote as noted by Brian is identified below it. Other quotes will also be placed on this page as they are found or provided through sites I visit. This page will constantly be updated with new quotes as I feel they are beneficial to my visitors.  Also quotes from the last seven days will be posted and as a new one is added, the oldest will be removed.  If you would like to retrieve a quote that was previously posted, please freel free to e-mail me
"Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning."
Source: -- Winston Churchill, British prime minister
"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea."
Source:- Napoleon Hill, author
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
Source: -- John F. Kennedy, 35 President of the United States
"Common sense is genius dressed up in work clothes."
Source: -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk."
Source:   J.C. Penney, businessman
"You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace."
Source: -- Brian Tracy
"When I was young, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures, so I did 10 times more work."
Source: -- George Bernard Shaw, Writer and Critic
"Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning."
Source: -- Winston Churchill, British prime minister
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"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before."
Source: -- Jacob Riis, Photographer and Journalist
"There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen."
Source:  -- Hugh Prather
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
Source:  -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, author
"Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."
Source:  Mary Bethune, educator
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement."
Source Claude M. Bristol, 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."
-Source:  Brian Tracy, motivational coach
"It's not where you start - it's where you finish that counts."
Source -- Zig Ziglar, Author
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
Source:  Malcolm Forbes, Publisher
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
Source:   Malcolm Forbes, Publisher
"It's not where you start - it's where you finish that counts."
Source:  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."
Source:  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."
Source:  Claude M. Bristol, Author
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little 'extra'."
Source:  Jimmy Johnson, American Football Coach
"All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare."
Source:  Dale Carnegie, motivational expert
"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."
Source:  John Naisbitt, writer
"In the middle of every difficulty comes opportunity."
Source:  Albert Einstein
"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."
Source: 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."
Source:  Muhammad Ali, boxer
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the staircase."
Source:  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."
Source:   Rick Pitino
"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."
Source:  Benjamin Franklin, statesman
"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. "
Source:  Martin Luther King Jr., clergyman
"It takes the hammer of persistence to drive the nail of success."
Source:  John Mason, Writer
"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."
Source:  Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker
When the solution is simple, God is answering."
Source:  Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
Source:  Walter Elliott
"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
Source:  Bruce Barton, Author and Politician
"We must take change by the hand or rest assuredly, change will take us by the throat."
Source-- Winston Churchill, Former British prime minister
"Each man (is) the architect of his own fortune."
Source:  Appius Caecus, builder
"The most important thing about goals is... having one."
Source:  Geoffry F. Abert
"Believe you will be successful and you will."
Source -- Dale Carnegie, motivational speaker
"You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person."
Source -- Scott Sorrell
"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. "
Source -- Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady
"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."
Source - Oprah Winfrey, talk show host
"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."
Source - Brian Tracy, Author
"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
Source - George Washington Carver, botanist
"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."
Source -- Charles Knight, publisher
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
Source- Leo Tolstoy, Author