Zig Ziglar Quotes

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

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.

You know that failure prelude to being the victim of what is criminally wrong.

Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.

You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.

Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind.

It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

Action often precedes the feeling.

Even people who don't share my specific faith (denomination, beliefs, etc.) are typically enthusiastic about my profession of faith in God and my commitment to living to God-given standards.

You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

You don't pay the price for success, you enjoy the benefits of success.

I would rather train someone and lose them, than not train them and keep them

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

You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence.

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

When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future.

The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

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.

The depth of your spirit will determine the height of your success.

Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

What you sow you reap. What you give

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

I'm not gonna give up, shut up, or let up, until I'm taken up ... as a matter of fact, I'm just getting warmed up.

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.

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

You can only see in others what is inside of you.

Possibly the greatest waste in life is the gap between what you are and what you could become.

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 seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

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.

Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

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

Remember, what you say comes back to you.

Express gratitude for what you have. This increases the possibility that eventually you will have more to express gratitude for.

You can't climb a smooth mountain

With children Love is spelled TIME.

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

Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.

No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

We should never let our experience influence what we think about our potential.

What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. How many good books, do you read each year? How often do you attend workshops? Who do you spend must of your time with?

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.

Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.

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

Time can be an ally or an enemy.

Logic won't change an emotion but action will.

Attitudosis cannot survive a strong, steady dose of uplifting literature or a regular donation of your time to a good cause. Make eye contact with someone who doesn't expect it and then give her your best smile. When you are willing to improve your attitude and you take action to do so, you'll enjoy life even more.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Over deliver in all you do and soon you will be rewarded for the extra effort.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

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

Every time passionate people fail, they are convinced that they are simply one step closer to fulfilling their dream.

I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

Failure is an event, it is not a person.

Failure is often the line of least persistence.

Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.

If there were no Love, there'd be no grief

You cannot achieve someone else's goals.

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

Much about success is just the result of simply the ability to follow up, follow through, and finish what we started.

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.

Check the records; there has never been an undisciplined person who was a champion. Regardless of the field of endeavor, you'll find this to be true.

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

Out from under it. "We never do anything well 'til we cease to think about the manner of doing it." - William Hazlitt

Like sterling silver, love will tarnish unless it is polished with daily applications of interest, involvement, and expressions of love.

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The best time to do something significant is between yesterday and tomorrow.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.

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

Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.

Dreams grow if you grow.

The playing field of life is not level, and for you to compete in the game of life, you need an equalizer of some kind. In the old West, the equalizer was the six-shooter. It enabled a little guy to chop a bigger man down to size. Desire is also an equalizer
and nowadays is highly encouraged over a six-shooter!

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

The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

Surround yourself with people who want the best for you and the people you love!

We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. When you do the right things in the right way you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear.

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.

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

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

Two sure ways to fail- Think and never do or do and never think.

Nobody on the face of the earth can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.

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

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed.

Vulgar of manner, overfed, Overdressed and underbred; Heartless, Godless, hell's delight, Rude by day and lewd by night. - Byron RufusNewton

Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.

Good values are easier caught than taught.

You have to feed your mind daily with the good, clean, pure, powerful and positive.