Zig Ziglar

We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don’t take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death’s valley.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

If you’re going to have to swallow a frog, you don’t want to have to look at that sucker too long!

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means ‘the love of wisdom.’

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

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

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!

Some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

My favorite writers are all Jews – David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark – well, you get the picture.

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways it won’t work.