Zig Ziglar Quotes
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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.
Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.
When you make a promise, keep it.
When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.
You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.
Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
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.
Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
Every choice you make has an end result.
If you want to earn more, learn more.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.
Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
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.
In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!
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.'
Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
Dreams grow if you grow.
Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?