Zig Ziglar Quotes

I am so thankful I had the strength and promises of a loving God to guide my choices and decisions, and to uphold me through the unbelievably dark days and times of overwhelming sorrow.

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

Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

How happy you are depends to a very large degree on your relationships with other people.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

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

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

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

When you make a mistake, be excited! Analyze what happened, and learn from it.

If you don't like the way you are, don't worry about it. You can change the way you are.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.

When you have passion for something you find a way to make it happen - this is the panacea to success.

What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance

You cannot go higher than you think you can.

You can't climb a smooth mountain

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

Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

I am truly grateful that faith enables me to move past the question of 'Why?'

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

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

Winning leaders are almost always motivated when the chips are down.

Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.

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

Your thinking today determines your performance today.

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

Rather than shrinking away from your problems, grow bigger than them.

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

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

You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.

A solid foundation for children involves a solid moral base

One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.

You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power

Time can be an ally or an enemy.

If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we'd be happy with more.

Hard times always uncover the basic goodness and evil of the day.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow'.

You plus God equals enough.

With definite goals you release your own power, and things start happening.

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.