Zig Ziglar

I believe it’s important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

It’s not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

I’ve got to confess I’m a pragmatic optimist myself.

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Be yourself. No one else can be you.

When you try to come for me, I keep on flourishing.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man…only five hundred.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

Look in my eyes right now – you see no sunken place.

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

Vision is the art of seeing things that are not yet visible.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

I don’t know exactly what’s next but I’m stepping forward with grit anchored in grace.

My favorite writers are all Jews – David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark – well, you get the picture.

Stay Strong.