Zig Ziglar Quotes

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

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

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 God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

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

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.

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

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.

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.

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

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

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.

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

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

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.

If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.

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

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?

Every choice you make has an end result.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

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

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.