“You can’t be a winner and be afraid to lose.” — Charles Lynch

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may
have planned for you? Not much.” — Jim Rohn

“Something must die in order to grow – your old habits, your old self image, your old thinking, your old life…
must be weeded out for the seeds of success to grow.” — Doug Firebaugh

“For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar
and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.” — Nido Qubein

“The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work – if you won’t.” — Zig Ziglar

“We all need lots of powerful long-range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.” — Jim Rohn

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in
judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to
either fortune or failure.” — Jim Rohn

“The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal
plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.” — Nido Qubein

“Where will you be in five years? Develop a plan, and then activate that plan to put yourself where you want to
be in five years. Be sure to update your five-year plan at least annually in order to stay ahead of the game.” —
Tom Hopkins

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once
you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.” — Harvey Mackay

“Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future — a vision based on common values — is
only training.” — Nido Qubein

“Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word ‘no’ mean to a child? Almost nothing.” —
Jim Rohn

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may
have planned for you? Not much.” — Jim Rohn

“One of the marks of superior people is that they are action-oriented. One of the marks of average people is that
they are talk-oriented.” –Brian Tracy

“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more
important than the events that occur.” — Vince Lombardi

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.” —
Benjamin Disraeli

“List 20 things you are going to do in the next 30 days to fast-start your sales career. Then take action on at least
one of them.” — Brian Tracy

“Time is on your side…always has been….but which side is it on? Winning…or Losing?…Your choice.” — Dr.
Maxwell Maltz

“99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” — George Washington Carver

“When you have a clear purpose, you won’t have time for negativity.” — Mark Victor Hansen

“When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge.” — Terry Bradshaw

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” — Tommy Lasorda 

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“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always
pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and
less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and
stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” — Mark Victor
Hansen

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a
solution everybody can understand.” — General Colin Powell

“No matter what size the bottle, the cream always came to the top.” — Charles Wilson

“We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time to bring value to the marketplace, but we get
paid for the value, not the time.” — Jim Rohn

“You do not lead by hitting people over the head–that’s assault, not leadership.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Opportunities? They are all around us…there is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to
discover it.” — Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” — Lee Iococca

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” —
Thomas Edison

“A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.” — Swahili Proverb

“You may delay, but time will not.” — Benjamin Franklin

“The majority of people meet with failure because they lack the persistence to create new plans to take the place
of failed plans.” — Mark Victor Hansen

“Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim, nor even extra brightness, but perseverance all can have.”
– Woodrow Wilson

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in very difficulty.” — Winston
Churchill

“You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices
today.” — Brian Tracy

“The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then
focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.” —
Denis Waitley

“Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.” — Sir James Dewar

“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his
mind.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” —
Abraham Lincoln

“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom
otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude
to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.” — Zig Ziglar

“You can’t hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can’t catch fish unless you put your line in the
water. You can’t reach your goals if you don’t try.” — Kathy Seligman

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It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best motivation is self-motivation.  The guy says, “I wish someone would come by and turn me on.” What if they don’t show up?  You’ve got to have a better plan for your life.
Jim Rohn

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide

Our strength grows out of our weakness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
Brian Tracy

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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“If you don’t have a dream, How you gonna have a dream come true?” — From Lyrics for Happy Talk, South
Pacific

“Life at any time can become difficult: Life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts
oneself to life.” — Morarji Desai

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the
man with the wrong mental attitude.” — Thomas Jefferson

“The noblest search is the search for excellence.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

“God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would
keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.” — Jim Rohn

“We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more,
the cloudy summits of our time.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ”Make me feel
important.” Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.” — Mary Kay Ash

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” — Henry Kissinger

“The more you say, the less people will remember.” — Anatole France

“The most damaging phrase in the language is: “It’s always been done that way.”" — Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

“Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution.” — Jeffrey Gitomer

“Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.” — Herbert Clark Hoover

“Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your
own growth.” — James A. Ray

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Count Leo Tolstoy

“A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that
hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.” — Maltbie Babcock

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” — Sun Tzu

“Don’t get complacent. Push yourself out of your comfort zone and set higher standards of achievement for
yourself. Once you’ve achieved a standard of excellence, never let it rest–push yourself even higher.” — Dave
Anderson

“Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise.” — Harvey Mackay

“You don’t have to get it perfect – you just have to get it going. Babies don’t walk the first time they try, but
eventually they do.” — Mark Victor Hansen

“Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.” —
Jim Rohn

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great.” — Mark Twain

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” — Anthony Robbins

“You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but
the more chance you have of getting somewhere.” — Charles F. Kettering

“To move the world we must first move ourselves.” – Socrates

“Be   very   careful  what   you   say   to   yourself   because   someone   very   important   is listening… You!” – John Assaraf

“Winners are  the ones who  really  listen  to  the  truth of   their  hearts.”  – Sylvester Stallone

“The secret of success is consistency of purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Don’t just dream it. Be it!” – Richard O’brian

“He has achieved success who has   lived well,   laughed often and  loved much.”   - Bessie Anderson Stanley

“The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come  true.” – James Allen

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” – Orison Swett  Marden

“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn

“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward  what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing  it to master you.” – Brian Tracy