Zig Ziglar

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

Happiness is the ability to move forward knowing the future will be better than the past.

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

The best advice I can give to anyone going through a rough patch is to never be afraid to ask for help.

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

Think BIG! You are going to be thinking anyway, so think BIG!

A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.

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.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

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.

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.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all-in which case, you fail by default.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day

Every man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential – unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.