Zig Ziglar

Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude.

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

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

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

When you make a promise, keep it.

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

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

You will reap what you sow,’ rings true again. And you will be reaping it. A good thing to think about.

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

I would say to do you and do you well. Don’t try to be anyone else. Don’t try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths. Even if you see someone onstage that is killing it, don’t try to do what they’re doing. Just keep doing you.

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

When people are in a focused state, the words I can’t,I’ll try,I’ll do it tomorrow,and maybeget forced out of their vocabularies.

First they think you’re crazy, then they fight you, and then, all of a sudden, you change the world.

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

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.

Keep on trying… each failure is one step closer to a success.