Zig Ziglar

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun ‘at work’ and getting paid for it!

Some people do really find fault like there’s a reward for it.

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

I’m so optimistic, I’d go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

Take time to be kind and to say ‘thank you.’

You can make just about anything of your life-anything you will believe or will visualize, anything you will pray for and work for. Look deeply into your mind. Amazing wonders are there. Whatever the situation may be, you can improve it.

We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don’t take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death’s valley.

You’ve got to be before you can do and do before you can have.

The most important thing in life is to love what you’re doing, because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember – the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Everyone lives by selling something.

Risk-taking is the cornerstone of empires.

Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

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.

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.