Zig Ziglar

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

Don’t let mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

There is little you can learn from doing nothing.

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

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

If you’re bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don’t think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

Once you’re grown up you can’t come back.

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I’ve improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

And let’s be clear: It’s not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren’t healthy. It’s also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

The more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury.

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That’s what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep… Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents, are their most important role models.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

We weren’t wealthy but we definitely weren’t poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd’s Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.