Zig Ziglar

Put all excuses aside and remember this: You are capable.

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?

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.

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

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – always see them, for they are always there.

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

… be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination … you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.

That one by one by one we can defuse this nuclear bomb of hate that we’re in as a society by thinking of everyone as our family.

If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

Give yourself a little freedom to develop into something or someone you’d actually like to be.

I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

Accountability breeds response-ability.