Zig Ziglar

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.

Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude.

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules.

If you don’t get out there and try to solve your own problems, it’s never going to change.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I’m a great believer in anything that makes you 1 percent better. So I try everything. Freudian. Jungian. Est. Life Spring. Course in Miracles. Twelve Steps. I have pain from time to time. I have joy from time to time.

A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.

Difficulties break some men but make others.

I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others.

Americans never quit.

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Most people think small because they are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning.

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

You never fail until you stop trying.

Time management is really a misnomer; the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.