Zig Ziglar Quotations | Page 8

Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation

God never shuts one door without opening a bigger better door. Hang in there. You are closer to success than you may think.

It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude... The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.

While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.

Logic won't change an emotion but action will.

Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success.

You can start where you are with what you've got and go wherever it is you want to go.

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.

Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision.

With children Love is spelled TIME.

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty.

There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.

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

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

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.

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing.

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

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.

The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

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

Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.

We are Physical, Mental and Spiritual beings. If you don't deal with ALL OF LIFE you're not going to get all that life has to offer.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

In the blink of an eye everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may not have that chance again.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.

When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for

I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step, because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves, but nothing is accomplished by standing still

Create a life you can't wait to live.

Will what I am about to do, bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals?

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.

You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business.

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

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.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.

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 greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.

You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.

A second chance doesn't mean anything if you haven't learned from your first mistake.

If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't worry about it because you're not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change. You can be more than you are.

The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.

True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.

God showed me that He could and would replace everything that was missing in my life, but that nothing could replace Him in my life.

When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.

Your attitude is more important that your aptitude.

Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.

If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.

A healthy mind breeds a healthy body and visa versa!

Live in such a way that if someone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.

You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.

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

Don’t let Negative and Toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.

Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.

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.

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories.

I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation, will enable you to get more of the things money will buy and all of the things money won't buy.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.

The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.

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

A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are for what you have.

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you. Regardless of who you are or what you do, if you are looking for the best way to reap the most reward in all areas of life, you should look for the good in every person and in every situation and adopt the golden rule as a way of life.

We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning

God created man on purpose, and for a purpose.

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

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.

Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes.

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours. ~

Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?

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

In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.

God's way is still the best way.

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