Zig Ziglar

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

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

If you want to earn more, learn more.

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

I’m so optimistic, I’d go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference.

I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

There were no role models, there were no other people I knew who were dealing with the same issues that I was dealing with. I had no idea if this was a stage I was going through or not. But I go to the draft board in Brooklyn and I fill out the form and there was a question that said ‘Do you have homosexual tendencies?’ and I check yes. But where-ever I was on line I’d see people I went to high school with and I was afraid of anyone knowing this about me so I kept on falling back into line and falling back into line. If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist. He said ‘I see here you’ve checked the box?’ And I said ‘yup’. He said ‘So do you think you’d have a problem serving in the armed forces?’ I said well you know ‘So many men.’ And I was out of the service.

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

You will have failures in your life, but it is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.

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.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights … it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give them freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

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

It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It’s how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It’s how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It’s the language we use.

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

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

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

Put all excuses aside and remember this: You are capable.

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