Zig Ziglar

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

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.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn’t it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don’t take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death’s valley.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

The most important thing in life is to love what you’re doing, because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.

I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow.

See yourself as a work in progress.

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

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

Luck does not come around often. So when it does, be sure to take full advantage of it, even if it means working very hard. When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve. That is the true meaning of thinking big.

Give yourself a little freedom to develop into something or someone you’d actually like to be.

Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable.

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

You never fail until you stop trying.

The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.