Motivational sales quotes provide a valuable tool for inspiring your sales team to sell more and maintain their drive despite the competition. Whether you use sales quotes throughout your workplace or include them in emails, the right sales quote can help a sales team’s members keep going after rejection, as well as provide encouragement or inspire them to be more disciplined.
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In this article, we share 80 sales quotes for various occasions, including general motivational quotes, sales quotes about discipline and quotes to help people overcome rejection.
General motivational sales quotes
Here are several general motivational sales quotes to inspire you and your team.
1. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” Og Mandino
2. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” Sam Levenson
3. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” Tony Robbins
4. “The major difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that the former look for problems to resolve, whereas the latter make every attempt to avoid them.” Grant Cardone
5. “Sales is not about selling anymore, but about building trust and educating.” Siva Devaki
6. “When reps take the role of a curious student rather than an informed expert, buyers are much more inclined to engage.” Jeff Hoffman
7. “Sales are contingent on the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect.” William Clement Stone
8. “Don’t celebrate closing a sale, celebrate opening a relationship.” Patricia Fripp
9. “Treat objections as requests for further information.” Brian Tracy
10. “Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.” Jim Rohn
11. “Become the person who would attract the results you seek.” Jim Cathcart
12. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” Florence Nightengale
13. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky
14. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” Henry Ford
15. “Trying is winning in the moment.” Dan Waldschmidt
16. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
17. “There is little success where there is little laughter.” Andrew Carnegie
18. “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible!'” Audrey Hepburn
19. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” Bruce Lee
20. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” Stephen Covey
Sales quotes to overcome rejection
Here are some quotes to inspire you when you need to inspire yourself to move past rejection.
21. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” Thomas Paine
22. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” Josh Billings
23. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” Teddy Roosevelt
24. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” Jimmy Dean
25. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” Charles R. Swindoll
26. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” Conrad Hilton
27. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” Dale Carnegie
28. “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” Fred Rogers
29. “One of the best predictors of ultimate success…isn’t natural talent or even industry expertise, but how do you explain your failures and rejections.” Daniel H. Pink
30. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” Aristotle
31. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” Proverb
32. “You can’t beat the person who never gives up.” Babe Ruth
33. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” Dr. Henry Link
34. “We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don’t. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.” Henry Rollins
35. “You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.” Ray Bradbury
Sales quotes about customers
Here are sales quotes to use as a reminder to focus on your customers over the sale.
36. “Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.” Jeffrey Gitomer
37. “Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her to solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.” Brian Tracy
38. “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.” Bob Hooey
39. “Make a customer, not a sale.” Katherine Barchetti
40. “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.” Bob Hooey
41. “You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” Zig Ziglar
42. “You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they’ve already hired you.” Jill Konrath
43. “Customers don’t care at all whether you close the deal or not. They care about improving their business.” Aaron Ross
44. “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.” Seth Godin
45. “Sales is not about selling anymore, but about building trust and educating.” Siva Devaki
46. “Selling is really about having conversations with people and helping improve their company or their life. If you look at it like that, selling is a very admirable thing to do.” Lori Richardson
47. “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
48. “The best salespeople wonder what it would be like to be in the other person’s shoes. They know they can’t play that game unless they continually strive to train themselves in how we as human beings communicate.” Bob Phibbs
49. “Care enough to create value for customers. If you get that part right, selling is easy.” Anthony Iannarino
50. “Filter everything you’re doing, saying and pitching through the customer point of view, and you’ll improve just about every metric you care about today.” Matt Heinz
Sales quotes to encourage
Here are several sales quotes you can use to inspire you on days you need more encouragement.
51. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Mark Twain
52. “I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.” Eleanor Roosevelt
53. “I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” Stephen Covey
54. “You don’t need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customers when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout the presentation, and watch your results improve.” Harvey MacKay
55. “The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.” Mia Hamm
56. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time.” Thomas Edison
57. “You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle
58. “Sales success comes after you stretch yourself past your limits daily.” Omar Periu
59. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count.” Winston S. Churchill
60. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” Chris Gosser
Sales quotes about persistence
Here are some motivational sales quotes to help increase your determination and persistence.
61. “The difference between a successful person and another is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” Vince Lombardi
62. “If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way. ” Roy Bennett
63. “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” Thomas Jefferson
64. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” Bill Bradley
65. “Where you start is not as important as where you finish.” Zig Ziglar
66. “Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our self-fulfilling prophecy.” Brian Tracy
67. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” J. Paul Getty
68. “Success is 99% failure.” Soichiro Honda
69. “A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream is a plan and a deadline.” Harvey MacKay
70. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” Dale Carnegie
Sales quotes about discipline
Here are a few motivational sales quotes to inspire you to be disciplined in your work.
71. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” Tony Robbins
72. “Today is always the most productive day of your week.” Mark Hunter
73. “Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be compelling to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.” Less Brown
74. “Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.” Zig Ziglar
75. “With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.” Muhammad Ali Jinnah
76. “Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.” Lou Holtz
77. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” Jim Rohn
78. “Discipline is the difference between what you want now and what you want most.” Author Unknown
79. “You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.” Jim Whittaker
80. “Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.” Roy L. Smith
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