Zig Ziglar

It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.

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

How you see the future is much more important than what happened in your past.

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.

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.

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

Love gets unappreciated a lot of times, but you still gotta keep giving it

For all the hard times and tough challenges I faced during different periods of my life, I think I was lucky or blessed or both. When things looked bleak, a good guide would appear to set me straight. Someone once asked me about the villains who got in my way, the bad guys who wanted to trip me up or take me out. I don’t remember any. Maybe it’s my nature to remember the good and forget the bad, or maybe it’s my destiny to lock onto the righteous for help.

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

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Private victories precede public victories. You can’t invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

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

To give away money is an easy matter, and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power, nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy, and noble.

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It’s how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It’s how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It’s the language we use.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.

If you want to earn more, learn more.