Zig Ziglar

Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they’ll be there for you.

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember – the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

Only men of character are trusted.

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

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.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream another dream.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

There is no substitute for hard work.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.

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?

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change

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.

When you get into a ‘tight’place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, it is then when you should never give up, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.