Zig Ziglar

Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient and the best things come to those who don’t give up.

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

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

Take time to be kind and to say thank you.

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

You can start where you are with what you’ve got and go to wherever it is you want to go.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

The greatest cause of a poor image is the absence of unconditional love.

I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.

Don’t be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

I’m competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that’s not always a good thing. It can make life complicated.

The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition … is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration … surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

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

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