Zig Ziglar Life Quotations

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

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

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.

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.

Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.

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

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.

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

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

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

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

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

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

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.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

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

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

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

The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.

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

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.

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.

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

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.

Go as far as you can see and you will see further.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Make today worth remembering.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.

Men are stupid. That much I know for sure. They say stupid things. They do stupid things. They hurt you for stupid reasons. But we love them all the same. My fiancee can be as stupid as can be at times, but then again so can I. We all can. Lets face it, life and love would be boring if we were all straight laced and smart.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back.

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

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.

Life is a ladder, it's not a bed

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.