Zig Ziglar

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

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

My favorite writers are all Jews – David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark – well, you get the picture.

When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference.

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.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

We are guided by outcomes, not ideology. We have a policy of principled realism, rooted in shared goals, interests, and values. That realism forces us to confront a question facing every leader and nation in this room. It is a question we cannot escape or avoid. We will slide down the path of complacency, numb to the challenges, threats, and even wars that we face. Or do we have enough strength and pride to confront those dangers today, so that our citizens can enjoy peace and prosperity tomorrow?

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

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

I’m really clear about what my life mission is now. There’s no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I’ve returned to the athlete I once was. I’m integrating all the parts of me – jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher – and becoming stronger as a result.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

I don’t like losers. Donald Trump

If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it

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

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can’t stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do ‘anything.’ If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream another dream.

Living your words, walking your talk, and talking your walk.

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.