Zig Ziglar

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

We cannot start over, but we can begin now and make a new ending.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

I am a black American male from Chicago, who had my rehearsal dinner at Versailles and then got married in Florence with a view of the entire city.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

[on Michelle] Like a lot of political spouses, the role was thrust upon her. But I always knew she’d be incredible at it, and put her own unique stamp on the job. That’s because who you see is who she is-the brilliant, funny, generous woman who, for whatever reason, agreed to marry me. I think people gravitate to her because they see themselves in her-a dedicated mom, a good friend, and someone who’s not afraid to poke a little fun at herself from time to time.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

If you were going to list the 100 most popular things that I have done as president. Being married to Michelle Obama is number one.

What Michelle has done is to remind me every day of the virtues of order.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.

On Oct. 3, 1992, Barack and I were married in Chicago – and every day since, I’ve grown prouder and more in love with him.

There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.