Zig Ziglar

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word ‘pessimist’ was not in our vocabulary at that time. It’s a modern ‘invention’ which I believe we should ‘dis-invent.’

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.’

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can’t stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do ‘anything.’ If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

If you want to earn more, learn more.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.

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.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

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

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.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Great people do things before they’re ready.

A habit is like a cable: we weave a thread of it everyday, and at last we cannot break it – so we must form good, positive, and productive habits.

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

When you do more than you’re paid for. Eventually, you’ll be paid for more than you do.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.

We will either find a way or make one.

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.