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.

Don’t count the things you do, do the things that count.

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.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Lack of direction not lack of time is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn’t it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

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

Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.

People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. That is why they remain bound.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don’t misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

Sorry it had to end this way but uh, it is what it is …

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Everyone lives by selling something.

Don’t start the day until you have it finished. Don’t start the week until you have it finished. Don’t start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.

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