Zig Ziglar

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

Many people who want to be great aren’t willing to do the work to make it possible!

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

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

Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.

That one by one by one we can defuse this nuclear bomb of hate that we’re in as a society by thinking of everyone as our family.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

It takes a person who is wide-awake to make his dream come true.

Keep on trying… each failure is one step closer to a success.

The best way out is always through.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

How about dreaming out loud? How about feeling that something can happen to make the world better and inspire people? Is that OK for one second?

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

What distinguishes us from one another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable.