Zig Ziglar

Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

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?

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

It was incredible because it was forced humility. Previously, I would’ve looked at humility as more of a negative thing.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

Once you focus on your life’s objectives, you need to focus on your instructors to make sure they are qualified to teach you what you want to know. They should have already been where you want to go and have lived to tell about it.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

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

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

You’re a fighter. Look at everything you’ve overcome. Don’t give up now.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.

Really good people like me are scared of falling off. I’m totally scared of falling off. Just imagine it. Just imagine if I woke up one day and I was wack. What would I do then?

I’m constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don’t train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

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.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.