“Nothing is so fatiguing as the hanging on of an uncompleted task.”

“You’re not going to see your dreams come true if you don’t put wings, legs and arms, hands and feet on ‘em.”

“Trust that still, small voice that says, This might work and I’ll try it.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“Keep moving forward. Action is the oxygen of success. You have to keep hitting those singles and doubles to stay in the game of life, because if you’re at bat long enough, that perfect pitch eventually will come across the plate. And that’s when you have to be ready to hit it out of the park.”

“To fight fear, act. To increase fear, wait, put off, postpone.”

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

“The formula for attaining mastery in anything is pretty simple. Do stuff, pay close attention to your mistakes, and do stuff some more.”

“There is one thing that 99 percent of ‘failures’ and ‘successful’ folks have in common—they all hate doing the same things. The difference is that successful people do them anyway.”

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.”

“Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.”

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”

“Dreams only come true if we wake up and go to work.”

“He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.”

“Be willing to bear some discomfort. Every journey toward a goal has some inherent unpleasantness. If you are in the sales industry, rejection and failure are inevitable. In fact, in just living, rejection and failure are inevitable.

“We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.”

"All people, of every race, in every career, of all ages, have to deal with failure. Embracing the law of average and focusing on your efforts is the salesperson’s secret to success.”

“It’s choice—not chance—that determines your destiny.”

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.