Successful insurance sales professionalshave to learn early on how to maintain a thick skin and a positiveattitude. A great way to keep yourself motivated, especiallyduring tough times, is to be reminded of why you do what you do,the positive impact your efforts have on others, and how to stayresilient.

Insurance sales success takes dedication, passion, hard work andtime, but these 65 motivational quotes should amp you up to closethat next deal:

1. The difference between a successful personand others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, butrather a lack of will. — VinceLombardi

2. In order to succeed, we must first believethat we can. — Nikos Kazantzakis

3. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. Themost certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.— Thomas Edison

4. Most people think 'selling' is the same as'talking.' But the most effective salespeople know that listeningis the most important part of their job. — RoyBartell

5. The secret of getting ahead is gettingstarted. — Mark Twain

6. Life’s battles don’t always go to thestrongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those whothink they can. — Richard Bach

7. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so islosing. — Vince Lombardi

8. Pretend that every single person you meethas a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feelimportant.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed inlife. — Mary Kay Ash

9. If you are not taking care of your customer,your competitor will. — BobHooey

10. Sales are contingent upon the attitudeof the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect.— William Clement Stone

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11. People don’t buy for logical reasons.They buy for emotional reasons. — ZigZiglar

12. There is always room at the top.— Daniel Webster

13. For every sale you miss because you'retoo enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're notenthusiastic enough. — ZigZiglar

14. The difference between try and triumphis just a little umph! — MarvinPhillips

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15. Act as if what you do makes adifference. It does. — WilliamJames

16. Try not to become a person of success,but try to become a person of value. — AlbertEinstein

17. There are no shortcuts to any placeworth going. — Beverly Sills

18. You just can't beat the person whonever gives up. — Babe Ruth

19. If people like you, they’ll listen toyou, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.— Zig Ziglar

20. Life’s battles don’t always go to thestrongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those whothink they can. — Richard Bach

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21. Whatever you are, be a good one.— Abraham Lincoln

22. Prospecting - Find the man with theproblem. — Ben Friedman

23. If we all did the things we arecapable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.— Thomas Edison

24. The road to Easy Street goes throughthe sewer. — John Madden

25. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.— Milton Berle

26. Great works are performed not bystrength but by perseverance. — SamuelJohnson

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27. Fortune favors the bold.— Virgil

28. The way you position yourself at thebeginning of a relationship has profound impact on where you endup. — Ron Karr

29. The man who will use his skill andconstructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar,instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound tosucceed. — Henry Ford

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30. It’s easier to explain price once thanto apologize for quality forever. — ZigZiglar

31. The most unprofitable item evermanufactured is an excuse. — JohnMason

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32. Don't be afraid to give up the good togo for the great. — John D.Rockefeller

33. Goals aren't enough. You need goalsplus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadlineto make you run. One isn’t much good without the other, buttogether they can be tremendous. — BenFeldman

34. Failure will never overtake me if mydetermination to succeed is strong enough. — OgMandino

35. High expectations are the key toeverything. — Sam Walton

36. Lack of direction, not lack of time,is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.— Zig Ziglar

37. Excellence is not a skill. It’s anattitude. — Ralph Marston

38. Even if you are on the right track,you’ll get run over if you just sit there. — WillRogers

39. Don't let what you cannot do interferewith what you can do. — John R.Wooden

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40. Fear is the destroyer of dreams andthe killer of ambitions. — JeffreyBenjamin

41. Integrity is what we do, what we sayand what we say we do. — DonGaler

42. The majority of men meet with failurebecause of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to takethe place of those which fail. — NapoleonHill

43. Obstacles are necessary for successbecause in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comesonly after many struggles and countless defeats. — Og Mandino

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44. Today is always the most productiveday of your week. — Mark Hunter

45. There is little success where there islittle laughter. — AndrewCarnegie

46. It is not necessary to doextraordinary things to get extraordinary results.— Warren Buffett

47. Begin by always expecting good thingsto happen. — Tom Hopkins

48. The end result of kindness is that itdraws people to you. — AnitaRoddick

49. Nothing is impossible; the word itselfsays 'I'm possible!' — AudreyHepburn

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50. Treat objections as requests forfurther information. — BrianTracy

51. The successful warrior is the averageman, with laser-like focus. — BruceLee

52. The best way to sell yourself toothers is first to sell the others to yourself.— Napoleon Hill

53. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself.Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.— Wayne Dyer

54. Ninety percent of selling isconviction and 10% is persuasion. — ShivKhera

55. The secret of man’s successresides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact indealing with them. — J. G.Holland

56. You don’t close a sale; you open arelationship if you want to build a long-term, successfulenterprise. — Patricia Fripp

57. You will get all you want in life ifyou help enough other people get what they want.— Zig Ziglar

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58. Business is like riding a bicycle.Either you keep moving or you fall down. — FrankLloyd Wright

59. People with goals succeed because theyknow where they’re going. — EarlNightingale

60. You can have anything in this worldyou want, if you want it badly enough and you’re willing to pay theprice. — Mary Kay Ash

61. It is not your customer’s job toremember you. It is your obligation and responsibility to make surethey don’t have the chance to forget you.— Patricia Fripp

62. Live out of your imagination, not yourhistory. — Stephen Covey

63. Confidence and enthusiasm are thegreatest sales producers in any kind of economy.— O.B. Smith

64. Take more chances than you dare.You’ll make more sales than you expect. That’s the formula.— Jeffrey Gitomer

65. Never, never, never quit.— Winston Churchill

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