Zig Ziglar

Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running.

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things to compete. You can just be an ordinary person, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don’t misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

You don’t have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

There is no need to be afraid of having faults, because knowing we have them can help us to improve.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family.

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

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.