Zig Ziglar

I believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.

Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word ‘pessimist’ was not in our vocabulary at that time. It’s a modern ‘invention’ which I believe we should ‘dis-invent.’

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

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.

Maybe I shouldn’t have these dreams and aspirations. Maybe I should have given up on life ten years ago and stopped fighting for my truth.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards!

The more you prospect, the more you prosper.

A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

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

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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

I did not breeze in there thinking: ‘I’m going to nail this.’ My heart rate was not low when I was doing the Golden Globes. I wanted to do well. It’s very bizarre to be in a room where everybody in your audience is famous. But also: it’s an awards show!

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Don’t count the things you do, do the things that count.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

If you haven’t found it yet keep looking.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.