Selling through continuous rejection takes a lot of motivation. For those who need a boost today, we offer these 25 quotable quotations:

“Today is always the most productive day of your week.”
–Mark Hunter

“A goal properly set is halfway reached.”
–Abraham Lincoln

“Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.”
–W. Clement Stone

“Most people think that selling is the same as talking. But the most effective salespeople know that listening is the most important part of their job.”
–Roy Bartell

“Your competition is everything else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.”
–Dan Cooper

“You will get all you want in life if you help other people get what they want.”
–Zig Ziglar

“You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they’ve already hired you.”
–Jill Konrath

“Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.”
–Jeffrey Gitomer

“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it. But if you love what you’re doing and always put the customer first, success will be yours.”
–Ray Kroc

“Talk to unhappy customers.”
–Linda Sanford

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
–John Wooden

“Make a customer, not a sale.”
–Katharine Barchetti

“Stop selling. Start helping.”
–Zig Ziglar

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
–Robert Schuller

“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

“Confidence and enthusiasm are the greatest sales producers . . . “
–O.B. Smith

“You don’t close a sale; you open a relationship…”
–Patricia Fripp

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

“Excellence is not a skill. It’s an attitude.”
–Ralph Marston

“Life’s battles don’t always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.”
–Vince Lombardi

“Take risks. If you win, you’ll be happy. If you lose, you’ll be wise.”
–Anonymous

“Business opportunities are like buses – there’s always another one coming.”
–Richard Branson

“Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.”
–Zig Ziglar

“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

“Goals aren’t enough. You need goals plus deadlines…”
–Ben Feldman