Zig Ziglar

Lack of direction not lack of time is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

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

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

Every choice you make has an end result.

I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

To be successful you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, and then resolve to pay the price to get it.

How you see the future is much more important than what happened in your past.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

Sometimes understanding other people’s problems is the key to finding opportunities.

To give away money is an easy matter, and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power, nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy, and noble.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Precision, instinct and tempo are all necessary in order to become extraordinary.

The successful entrepreneur’s unique ability to turn trying times into triumphs.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

See yourself as a work in progress.

He climbs highest who helps another up.