Zig Ziglar

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

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don’t misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.

Every choice you make has an end result.

If you’re going to have to swallow a frog, you don’t want to have to look at that sucker too long!

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.

There is no need to be afraid of having faults, because knowing we have them can help us to improve.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

Better an ‘oops’ than a ‘what if’.

Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

Our intentions create our reality.

Sometimes Tina Fey is like a very talented bungee-jumping expert. All it takes Tina to softly say, ‘We can do this, right?’ and I suddenly feel like I can jump off a bridge.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Vision is the art of seeing things that are not yet visible.

In today’’s rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.