Zig Ziglar Quotations | Page 3

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.

You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life.

The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief.

This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?

When you look at the possibilities instead of the problems, the future is filled with endless opportunities

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

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!

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action against negative thinking. It's just like with a computer; if you change the input, you will change the output.

The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

Always do the right thing, always be exciting, always be encouraging, and always be learning something new.

How you see your future is much more important that what has happened in your past.

Failure doesn't come from falling down, failure comes from not getting up

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

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

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

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.

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

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.

You build a better company by building better people.

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

Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.

When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it.

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.

I have too many flaws to be perfect. But i have too many blessings to be ungrateful.

It's a great day! And if you don't think it's a great day, just try missing one.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to [grow and] become successful. For that reason it makes sense to be grateful for adversities that help you grow, even if it is only in understanding and compassion for other's suffering.

Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.

Happiness is not something you find, but rather something you create.

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

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

Every day is a good day, and if you don't believe me, just try missing one of them.

Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That's the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR.

Only men of character are trusted.

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

Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.

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

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory. Remember, time is irreplaceable.

Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands.

Once a need is satisfied, it is no longer a motivator. Satisfaction does not increase motivation

Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top ~ that is what quotes are . . . the cream of our learning!

Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.

That's why we recommend it daily.

Surround yourself with optimistic people.

Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.

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

Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other

People don't buy drills they buy holes

Today I will be a successful sales professional, and I will learn something today that will make me even more professional tomorrow.

Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.

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

It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

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.

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

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

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

Make finding the good in others a priority

You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

You gotta climb the steps... you can't skip them

Encouragement and hope are the two most powerful qualities any person can provide to others.

The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.'

It's not where you start but where you finish that counts.

Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!

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

I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.

A smile is your greatest social asset.

I win not because of my own efforts or my own goodness, but rather through the grace, love, and mercy of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He died so that I might win this game of life and live with Him forever.

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

Success and happiness are not destinations, they are exciting, never-ending journeys.

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

Success is not a destination, it's a journey.

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

Spirit is the most valuable asset, more than money and any other power.

I'm so Optimistic I'll take my last 2 dollars and buy a Money Belt.

Part of your purpose in life is to build strong and fruitful relationships with others, and your work setting is a perfect place to start.

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

A child is born to win, but too many have been conditioned to lose.

Keep your thinking right and your business will be right.

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Kids don't make up 100 percent of our population, but they do make up 100 percent of our future.

You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.

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.

The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.

Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.

Happiness is the result of what you do.

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.

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

If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.