Zig Ziglar

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

Every choice you make has an end result.

If you are not willing to learn no one can help you. If you are determined to learn no one can stop you.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

To give away money is an easy matter, and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power, nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy, and noble.

All great things begin with a vision … a dream.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

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.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

Live your imagination, not your history.

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.

I will work day after day like I did my whole life … I’m not going to change anything.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

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

It was a feeling I had. People were taught how to think, we’re taught how to feel. We don’t know how to think for ourselves, [and] we don’t know how to feel for ourselves. People say ‘Feel free,’ but they don’t really want us to feel free. I felt a freedom, first of all, doing something that everybody tells you not to do.

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don’t hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.