Zig Ziglar

You’ve got to be before you can do and do before you can have.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit every time.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.

Moving from survival to stability, from stability to success, from success to significance.

Every man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential – unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

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.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Fear is the great extinguisher of dreams… Conversely, it can be your best mentor and source of motivation.

My philosophy in life is this: if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

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

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

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.

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.