Zig Ziglar

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

I’ve got to confess I’m a pragmatic optimist myself.

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.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word ‘pessimist’ was not in our vocabulary at that time. It’s a modern ‘invention’ which I believe we should ‘dis-invent.’

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

It’s not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability todo, the patience to wait. Put these together and you have achievement.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Go as far as you can see and you will see further.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

If it’s flipping burgers at Mcdonald’s, be the best burger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do, you have to master your craft.

Just saying you are better than good won’t make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.

Only men of character are trusted.

He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.

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

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

A habit is like a cable: we weave a thread of it everyday, and at last we cannot break it – so we must form good, positive, and productive habits.