Zig Ziglar

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

There is little you can learn from doing nothing.

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

Happiness is the ability to move forward knowing the future will be better than the past.

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

Some people make things happen, some people watch things happen, and some ask what happened.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

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

The world’s most deadly disease is hardening of the attitudes.

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

Now’s the best time you’ll ever have in life to get ahead!

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Feeling is more important than thought.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Being comfortable can hurt your creative entrepreneurial spirit.

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

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.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of per sistence in creating new plans to take the place of those that fail.