Zig Ziglar Quotes

You'll never see a happy ungrateful person.

When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.

Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?

Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide.

Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.

When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives.

Good values are easier caught than taught.

Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.

There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.

If you are a complainer you might have already spent your HELP quota.

Create a life you can't wait to live.

Fear is the fatal killer of desire.

You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.

Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.

In the blink of an eye everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may not have that chance again.

Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

A true leader produces more leaders.

Gratitude is the most important attitude.

Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.

If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need.

It makes no difference where you go ...there you are.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

Don't start your day with broken pieces of the past. Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it's yours.

Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.

You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility.

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and Start being positive about what could go right.

As you move to the top, remember the story of the pump. If you start pumping casually or half -heartedly, you will pump forever before anything happens. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

The message is clear. It is not what is happening 'out there.' It is what is happening between your ears. It's your attitude that counts.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

Your success and happiness start with you.

Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless, your time is gold and your health is wealth.

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire.

When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.

Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else.

Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others.

Opportunity is in the person, not the job.

If you don't have time to invest in a goals program is it possible that you don't have time because you don't have a goals program?

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.

Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.

Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.

When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future.

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

Life is a ladder, it's not a bed

Always do the right thing, always be exciting, always be encouraging, and always be learning something new.

Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.

A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.

You gotta climb the steps... you can't skip them

The playing field of life is not level, and for you to compete in the game of life, you need an equalizer of some kind. In the old West, the equalizer was the six-shooter. It enabled a little guy to chop a bigger man down to size. Desire is also an equalizer--and nowadays is highly encouraged over a six-shooter!

The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.