Zig Ziglar Quotes

I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you will get paid for more than you do. This is a basic truth that also applies to Business, Sales or anything you do. Whatever your endeavor always provide more service than you get paid for and you will develop a reputation that will separate you from the rest.

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories.

Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments everyday.

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.

Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

Feed your mind with the good, the clean, the pure, the powerful, and the positive

With children Love is spelled TIME.

Negative thinkers always have a negative vision.

When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.

Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I’m glad I did'?

All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.

Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from the negative things.

Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

Success is not a destination, it's a journey.

You have to 'be'' before you can 'do', and do before you can 'have'.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them

Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.

Did you know that every human being is created with a purpose and that they have a responsibility to not only discover their purpose but also to fulfill it?

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty water less cookware.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other

The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them. It's astonishing how much talent and ability rests inside a human being

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude... The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

Most Americans honestly believe America is the most powerful nation on earth, but actualy the most powerful nation is imagi-nation.

The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.

Successful people use their strength by recognizing, developing, and utilizing the talents of others.

Stop selling. Start helping.

The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis.The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others.

There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.

Success comes in cans, failure comes in can'ts.

Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.

I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.

Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.

Don't judge me by my past. I don't live there anymore

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

Motivation fuels the attitude that builds the Confidence necessary to sustain the Persistence.

You measure success by how much good you do for others.

Failure is often the line of least persistence.