Michelangelo

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.

Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.

I’ve always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

Being comfortable can hurt your creative entrepreneurial spirit.

If you’re going to have to swallow a frog, you don’t want to have to look at that sucker too long!

Live your imagination, not your history.