Zig Ziglar

It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

The great majority of people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can’t hit a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun ‘at work’ and getting paid for it!

Don’t underestimate yourself or your possibilities.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made courageous decision.

I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

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?

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

Some people make things happen, some people watch things happen, and some ask what happened.

I’ve always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.

I’m really clear about what my life mission is now. There’s no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I’ve returned to the athlete I once was. I’m integrating all the parts of me – jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher – and becoming stronger as a result.