Zig Ziglar

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

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that’s when passion is born.

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

The greatest cause of a poor image is the absence of unconditional love.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made courageous decision.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

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.

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

A habit is like a cable: we weave a thread of it everyday, and at last we cannot break it – so we must form good, positive, and productive habits.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

You’ve got to say, “I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough, I can have it.” It’s called perseverance.

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

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

You would worry less about what people think, if you knew how little they did.

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.