Zig Ziglar

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.

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

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.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

If you’re going to have to swallow a frog, you don’t want to have to look at that sucker too long!

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

Fear is the great extinguisher of dreams… Conversely, it can be your best mentor and source of motivation.

It is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

I’m a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word ‘grow.’

I don’t like losers. Donald Trump

Great people do things before they’re ready.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

There’s never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means ‘the love of wisdom.’

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

The great majority of people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can’t hit a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.