Top 40 Dan Miller Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!”

— Dan Miller

2. “True professional selling is simply sharing enthusiasm.”

— Dan Miller

3. “Continual learning is the key to continual living.”

— Dan Miller

4. “No high achiever ever woke up in the morning and said ‘let’s see what happens.’”

— Dan Miller

5. “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

6. “Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .”

— Dan Miller

7. “Don’t be so busy trying to make a living that you’re too busy to make a life.”

— Dan Miller

8. “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

9. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes.”

— Dan Miller

10. “Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.”

— Dan Miller

11. “No man can Become Rich without enriching others.”

— Dan Miller

12. “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

13. “No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.”

— Dan Miller

14. “Unfounded fears about your competence and abilities can cripple your unique talents and gifts, which are waiting to be released.”

— Dan Miller

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

— Dan Miller

16. “A goal is a dream with a timeframe on it.”

— Dan Miller

17. “Success doesn’t sneak up on us; it starts as a dream that we combine with a clear plan of action.”

— Dan Miller

18. “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

19. “I like getting on my high horse. I look good on it. Like a knight...”

— Dan Miller

20. “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

21. “Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.”

— Dan Miller

22. “Choosing to associate with positive, optimistic people will accelerate our positive growth.”

— Dan Miller

23. “The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.”

— Dan Miller

24. “The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” – Mark Twain.”

— Dan Miller

25. “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

26. “Meaningful work is within your grasp.”

— Dan Miller

27. “Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.”

— Dan Miller

28. “If we have no identity apart from our jobs, we are truly vulnerable.”

— Dan Miller

29. “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

30. “Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.”

— Dan Miller

31. “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

32. “It’s easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.”

— Dan Miller

33. “As Thomas Merton put it, “A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.”

— Dan Miller

34. “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

35. “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

36. “To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.”

— Dan Miller

37. “A Prayer for Joy” Help me, O God, To listen to what it is that makes my heart glad And to follow where it leads. May joy, not guilt, Your voice, not the voices of others, Your will, not my willfulness, Be the guides that lead me to my vocation. Help me to unearth the passions of my heart That lay buried in my youth. And help me to go over that ground again and again Until I can hold in my hands, Hold and treasure, Your calling on my life. – Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul.”

— Dan Miller

38. “If failure is not a possibility then winning is not so sweet.”

— Dan Miller

39. “Passion is more developed than discovered.”

— Dan Miller

40. “Have you ever noticed that even if God allows you to have a dream, you’re expected to work to make it happen?”

— Dan Miller

41. “Opportunity lies between your own two ears.”

— Dan Miller

42. “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

43. “The key to success is to be true to who you really are.”

— Dan Miller

44. “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

45. “In today’s work arena, creativity may be more of an asset than competence.”

— Dan Miller

46. “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

47. “My underwear is my own person buisness.”

— Dan Miller

48. “Next time you meet someone, try asking, “How are you making the world a better place?” rather than the normal, “What do you do?”

— Dan Miller