Zig Ziglar

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

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

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like.

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

Be yourself. No one else can be you.

I believe it’s important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

My favorite writers are all Jews – David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark – well, you get the picture.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

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

It’s always good to be underestimated.

We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don’t take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death’s valley.

Live your imagination, not your history.

Most people go along with the crowd. They do things because everybody else does it.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

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