Zig Ziglar

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

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.

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.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

FEAR has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.

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.

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it’s very simple. You can’t put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.

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.

Failure to plan ahead on your part does not create an emergency on my part.

You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

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

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

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.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability todo, the patience to wait. Put these together and you have achievement.

You’ll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

I’m constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don’t train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.