Zig Ziglar

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

Since belief determines behavior, doesn’t it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

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

If you aim at nothing, you will hit every time.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

If you put that effort in, you’ll get what you want.

Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient and the best things come to those who don’t give up.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream another dream.

Hold yourself to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.

You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Accept the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And the best people give you memories.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

If you want to be rich… don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I– I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.