Zig Ziglar Quotations | Page 7

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

The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.

You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.

The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad.Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person - yesterday ended last night.

Successful people use their strength by recognizing, developing, and utilizing the talents of others.

As you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go - you do change your direction to get there.

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.

Once you learn to do something consciously, you can move it into the subconscious and do it well. Everything you do well will be done subconsciously.

Your gratitude attitude determines your life altitude.

You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.

We cannot build our lives around what might happen tomorrow.

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.

Failure is an event, it is not a person.

Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life - hope and faith.

The 3 C's of Life: Choices, Chances and Changes.You must make a choice to take a chance or you will never change.

He chooses the beginning of a road, also chooses its outcome.

Opportunity is in the person, not the job.

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

Coincidence is Gods way of staying anonymous.

Lord, help me to remember that there are many ways to rejoice in any kind of day you make for us.

Husbands and wives, first, be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.

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

Even in tragedy, God through His Word offers hope for those who seek and believe. It starts with the promise of a better tomorrow, of life everlasting, of eternal peace. It's called faith, and it offers hope where none existed.

What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.

The way you see things - your attitude - is the most important factor in your success.

We miss 100 percent of the sales we don’t ask for.

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.

When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.

If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.

You are what you are because of what goes into your mind.

To get what you want help others get what they want

When we give it all, we can live with ourselves - regardless of the results.

Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact.

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

The way you look on the outside has a definite bearing on how you feel and see yourself on the inside.

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and Start being positive about what could go right.

Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.

The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year. There´s no sign of growth. Not even a hint. The same thing happens - or doesn´t happen - the second year. And then the third year. The tree is carefully watered and fertilized each year, but nothing shows. No growth. No anything. For eight years it can continue. Eight years! Then - after the eight years of fertilizing and watering have passed, with nothing to show for it - the bamboo tree suddenly sprouts and grows thirty feet in three months!

Success is like pumping an old well handle. You have to pump a very long time before you get water. But don't give up or you will have to start all over again.

Trust is the byproduct of integrity.

If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

You gotta have goals!

The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about!

You never judge a day by the weather!

Good values are easier caught than taught.

Things don't just happen, people make them happen

If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.

Life is a ladder, it's not a bed

To raise positive kids, we as parents must identify the qualities necessary for success, convince our children that they have the potential for success, and show them how to stake their claims in life.

That's exactly the way parents develop positive, successful kids. Don't look for the flaws, warts, and blemishes. Look for the gold, not for the dirt; the good, not the bad. Look for the positive aspects of life. Like everything else, the more good qualities we look for in our children, the more good qualities we are going to find.

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

Individuals score points, but teams win games.

Quite frequently, he who goes too fast gets there too late - or not at all.

Say "no" to the good and say "yes" to the best.

Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I’m glad I did'?

Success is in the details.

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

Take time to be quiet.

Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.

When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.

Selling is essentially transference of feeling.

The only way to coast is downhill.

Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.

Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical.

The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

Action often precedes the feeling.

Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.

When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.

You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them

First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what YOU are made of.

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

A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.

One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.

If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.

Have an attitude of gratidude and you will have more to be grateful for; have a complaining spirit and you will attract more to complain about.

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily.

God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.

Don't give up just because of what someone said. Use it as motivation to push harder.

Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.

If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

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

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

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

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

You have made some mistakes and you may not be where you want to be, but that has nothing to do with your future.

It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives.

Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret.