Zig Ziglar Quotes

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

"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."

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

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

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

"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."

"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."

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."

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

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

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

"Make today worth remembering."

"Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission."

"Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph."

"Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember—the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you."

"Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart."

"There are no traffic jams on the extra mile."

"When you do more than you're paid for, eventually you'll be paid for more than you do."

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

"You cannot tailor-make the situations in life, but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations."

"Success is not measured by what you do compared to others; it is measured by what you do with the ability you've been given."

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

"Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs."

"Money isn't everything, but it ranks right up there with oxygen."

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

"Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side."

"A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talked to each other instead of about each other."

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

"Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough."

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

"Your attitude determines how far you go in life."

"Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength."

"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses."

"People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons."

"Timid salesmen have skinny kids."

"Stop selling. Start helping."

"Every choice you make has an end result."

"The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty."

"You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm."

"Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions."

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

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

"Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker."

"Your attitude determines your altitude."

"Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours."

"Every obnoxious act is a cry for help."

"Don't count the things you do, do the things that count."

"Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment."

"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace."

"Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life—all areas of life."

"It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts."

"Remember that failure is an event, not a person."

"Positive thinking won't let you do anything, but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

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

"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble."

"People who build good relationships are the ones who know how to listen."

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have."

"A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others."

"Everything rises and falls on leadership."

"When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment."

"Leaders who are effective are leaders who are disciplined in their daily lives."

"If you wouldn’t follow yourself, why should anyone else?"

"The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people."

"The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth."

"As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me."

"Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

"When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life."

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

"The world's most deadly disease is hardening of the attitudes."

"People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another."

"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation."

"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."

"Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team."

"People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life."

"The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda."

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."

"Moving from survival to stability, from stability to success, from success to significance."