Zig Ziglar

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate… is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

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

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

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

Someday is not a day of the week.

That if you try once, you should try again. Keep that focus exactly where it should be-on winning.

There’s never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

Thought is useful when it motivates for action, and a hindrance when it substitutes for action.

All you need to be a success is ignorance and self confidence.

Impossible is just an opinion.

The ability to manage well doesn’t make much difference if you’re not even in the right jungle.

Great people do things before they’re ready.

Fear has two meaning; ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

It was a feeling I had. People were taught how to think, we’re taught how to feel. We don’t know how to think for ourselves, [and] we don’t know how to feel for ourselves. People say ‘Feel free,’ but they don’t really want us to feel free. I felt a freedom, first of all, doing something that everybody tells you not to do.

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.

I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can’t dream about it anymore. It’s easier to settle for less.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Dream big dreams. Only big dreams have the power to move men’s souls.