Zig Ziglar

All one needs to do is read – books, magazines, research the Internet – and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

He climbs highest who helps another up.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

The great majority of people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can’t hit a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

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

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

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

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

I read for the ‘ah-ha’s,’ the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man – financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

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.

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

I am a visceral person by nature. I act on instinct, quickly, without pondering possible disaster and without indulging in deep introspection.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

When people are in a focused state, the words I can’t,I’ll try,I’ll do it tomorrow,and maybeget forced out of their vocabularies.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Those who lose visualize the penalties of failure. Those who win visualize the rewards of success.

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