Successful insurance sales professionals have to learn early on how to maintain a thick skin and a positive attitude. A great way to keep yourself motivated, especially during tough times, is to be reminded of why you do what you do, the positive impact your efforts have on others, and how to stay resilient.
Insurance sales success takes dedication, passion, hard work and time, but these 65 motivational quotes should amp you up to close that next deal:
1. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. — Vince Lombardi
2. In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. — Nikos Kazantzakis
3. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most 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 listening is the most important part of their job. — Roy Bartell
5. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. — Mark Twain
6. Life’s battles don’t always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can. — Richard Bach
7. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. — Vince Lombardi
8. 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
9. If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will. — Bob Hooey
10. Sales are contingent upon the attitude of 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. — Zig Ziglar
12. There is always room at the top. — Daniel Webster
13. For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough. — Zig Ziglar
14. The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! — Marvin Phillips
15. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. — William James
16. Try not to become a person of success, but try to become a person of value. — Albert Einstein
17. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. — Beverly Sills
18. You just can't beat the person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth
19. If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you. — Zig Ziglar
20. Life’s battles don’t always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can. — Richard Bach
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21. Whatever you are, be a good one. — Abraham Lincoln
22. Prospecting - Find the man with the problem. — Ben Friedman
23. If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. — Thomas Edison
24. The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. — John Madden
25. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. — Milton Berle
26. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. — Samuel Johnson
27. Fortune favors the bold. — Virgil
28. The way you position yourself at the beginning of a relationship has profound impact on where you end up. — Ron Karr
29. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. — Henry Ford
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30. It’s easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever. — Zig Ziglar
31. The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse. — John Mason
32. Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. — John D. Rockefeller
33. Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn’t much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous. — Ben Feldman
34. Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. — Og Mandino
35. High expectations are the key to everything. — 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 an attitude. — Ralph Marston
38. Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. — Will Rogers
39. Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. — John R. Wooden
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40. Fear is the destroyer of dreams and the killer of ambitions. — Jeffrey Benjamin
41. Integrity is what we do, what we say and what we say we do. — Don Galer
42. The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. — Napoleon Hill
43. Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. — Og Mandino
44. Today is always the most productive day of your week. — Mark Hunter
45. There is little success where there is little laughter. — Andrew Carnegie
46. It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. — Warren Buffett
47. Begin by always expecting good things to happen. — Tom Hopkins
48. The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you. — Anita Roddick
49. Nothing is impossible; the word itself says 'I'm possible!' — Audrey Hepburn
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50. Treat objections as requests for further information. — Brian Tracy
51. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. — Bruce Lee
52. The best way to sell yourself to others 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 is conviction and 10% is persuasion. — Shiv Khera
55. The secret of man’s success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them. — J. G. Holland
56. You don’t close a sale; you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise. — Patricia Fripp
57. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. — Zig Ziglar
58. Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down. — Frank Lloyd Wright
59. People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. — Earl Nightingale
60. You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you’re willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
61. It is not your customer’s job to remember you. It is your obligation and responsibility to make sure they don’t have the chance to forget you. — Patricia Fripp
62. Live out of your imagination, not your history. — Stephen Covey
63. Confidence and enthusiasm are the greatest 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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