Dan Miller famous quotes

The key to success is to be true to who you really are.
-- Dan Miller

#Keys #Key To Success #Being True

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!
-- Dan Miller

#Perfect #Waiting

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.
-- Dan Miller

#Optimism #Worry #Sorrow

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .
-- Dan Miller

#Procrastination #Excellence #Desire

Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action - which then inevitably meets with opportunity. Don't get stuck along the way.
-- Dan Miller

#Dream #Opportunity #Imagination

In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.
-- Dan Miller

#Thinking #Alaska #Together

Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life.
-- Dan Miller

#Trying #Busy #Too Busy

True professional selling is simply sharing enthusiasm.
-- Dan Miller

#Enthusiasm #Selling

Meaningful work is within your grasp.
-- Dan Miller

#Meaningful #Meaningful Work

No man can Become Rich without enriching others.
-- Dan Miller

#Men #Making Money #Rich

Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.
-- Dan Miller

#Opportunity #Patterns #Transition

If someone saw a movie of your life so far, when the credits rolled, would they say, “Wow, that was awesome?” Or would they scratch their heads and say, “I wonder what that was all about?
-- Dan Miller

#Scratches #Credit #Wow

The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.
-- Dan Miller

#Successful #Errors #Differences

How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.
-- Dan Miller

#Struggle #Focus #Excellence

Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action.
-- Dan Miller

#Way #Action #Indecisive

Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.
-- Dan Miller

#Opportunity #Needs #May

Find ways to embrace the things that make you unique, and you'll unlock the ways you can make a difference in the world.
-- Dan Miller

#Unique #Differences #Making A Difference

Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.
-- Dan Miller

#Opportunity #Risk #Hanging On

The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.
-- Dan Miller

#Jobs #Loss #Fire

In today’s work arena, creativity may be more of an asset than competence.
-- Dan Miller

#Creativity #May #Today

I started in the industry in Public Relations, Quality Assurance, Information Systems and furniture moving. I tried my hand in design and haven’t looked back. I’m fond of hackysack, racquetball, BBQ grilling, hanging out with my wife and friends
-- Dan Miller

#Moving #Hands #Bbq

It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.
-- Dan Miller

#Focus #Sometimes #Easy

The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.
-- Dan Miller

#Relationship #Blessed #Heart

If we have no identity apart from our jobs, we are truly vulnerable.
-- Dan Miller

#Jobs #Identity #Vulnerable

Unfounded fears about your competence and abilities can cripple your unique talents and gifts, which are waiting to be released.
-- Dan Miller

#Motivational #Unique #Waiting

A goal is a dream with a timeframe on it.
-- Dan Miller

#Dream #Goal

No high achiever ever woke up in the morning and said ‘let’s see what happens.’
-- Dan Miller

#Morning #Said #Achiever

You must develop a sense of what you can contribute that goes beyond 1 company or organization. A career path today will likely involve moving from organization to organization, creating a picture of rising circles, rather than a vertical ladder. In fact, a vertical rise within one organization will very likely move you away from your strongest areas of competence.
-- Dan Miller

#Moving #Circles #Careers

Sanctified ignorance is the belief that if we love God and have committed our lives to Him, everything will work out…Sanctified ignorance is no excuse for a life out of alignment, lacking joy, fulfillment, and a clear sense of accomplishment…Look at how God has uniquely gifted you in your skills and abilities, personality traits, and values, dreams and passions. It is in these that we find the authentic path designed for us for a purpose-driven life.
-- Dan Miller

#Dream #Passion #Ignorance

Opportunity lies between your own two ears
-- Dan Miller

#Lying #Opportunity #Two

We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.
-- Dan Miller

#Independent #Thinking #Government

The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.
-- Dan Miller

#Opportunity #Ideas #People

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.
-- Dan Miller

#Motivational #Circumstances #Highlights

Passion is more developed than discovered.
-- Dan Miller

#Motivational #Passion

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.
-- Dan Miller

#Motivational #Goal #Accountability

Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.
-- Dan Miller

#Motivational #Expectations #Be Careful

Choosing to associate with positive, optimistic people will accelerate our positive growth.
-- Dan Miller

#Motivational #Optimistic #People

Continual learning is the key to continual living.
-- Dan Miller

#Motivational #Keys

Your security is determined by your ability to define what it is you do that has value. The clearer you can be on what it is you do well and what provides value for someone else, the more security you have.
-- Dan Miller

#Determined #Ability #Wells