Zig Ziglar Quotes

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.

Have an attitude of gratidude and you will have more to be grateful for; have a complaining spirit and you will attract more to complain about.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.

It's a great day! And if you don't think it's a great day, just try missing one.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in the first place. Reading this blog once in a while might also be helpful

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

When we separate the word business into its component letters, B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S, we find that U and I are both in it. In fact, if U and I were not in business, it would not be business. Furthermore, we discover that U comes before I in business and the I is silent-it is to be seen, not heard. Also, the U in business has the sound of I, which indicates it is an amalgamation of the interests of U and I. When they are properly amalgamated, business becomes harmonious, profitable, and pleasant.

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.

Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.

Failure is an event, it is not a person.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

To a child, 'love' is spelled T-I-M-E.

Don't listen to people who tell you what to do. Listen people who encourage you to do what's right in your heart.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Will what I am about to do, bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals?

Nobody on the face of the earth can make you feel inferior without your permission.

When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.

Over deliver in all you do and soon you will be rewarded for the extra effort.

Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.

You don't pay the price for success, you enjoy the benefits of success.

It's not going to be easy, it's going to be worth it.

Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact.

Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard - reaching for the highest that is in us - becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

When our goals are clearly defined and intelligently set, you have, in essence, taken a major step toward programming your left brain. That frees your right brain to be its creative best.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.

Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

There's no way you can look into the game oflife and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whetherit will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come!

We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.

I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

To get what you want help others get what they want

In most cases there are obstacle standing between you and those opportunities in life but, I just want you to know that front row seat is available everywhere.

We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.

Your thinking today determines your performance today.