Zig Ziglar

It’s absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient and the best things come to those who don’t give up.

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

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

Take time to be kind and to say ‘thank you.’

The world moves along at such a fast clip that we have little patience when things are slow, whether it’s the line at a supermarket or Internet access. We’ve become intolerant of those things that cannot be accelerated or skipped entirely. I can’t speed up the foundation work for a building, nor can I expect to play piano like Glenn Gould just because I want to.

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

Done is better than perfect.

Make sure the product is worth your energy.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible.

The successful entrepreneur’s unique ability to turn trying times into triumphs.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can’t dream about it anymore. It’s easier to settle for less.

Whether it’s eight o’clock in the morning or eight o’clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

The fact of the matter is, you don’t give up what’s natural. Anything I’ve fantasized about, I’ve done.