Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
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It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment the
scroll. I am the master of my fate. read more
It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment the
scroll. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.
Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own
doorstep is unclean.
Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own
doorstep is unclean.
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is
stronger than any physical force in read more
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is
stronger than any physical force in the universe.
I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I read more
I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep read more
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. - Works and Days.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried
and succeeded.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried
and succeeded.
