Zig Ziglar

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.

The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don’t bring presents.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

I am a visceral person by nature. I act on instinct, quickly, without pondering possible disaster and without indulging in deep introspection.

lf you don’t think everyday is a great day, try going without one.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

When you get into a ‘tight’place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, it is then when you should never give up, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

There’s never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

Projecting your mind into a successful situation is the most powerful means to achieve goals.

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against 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.

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

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.