Zig Ziglar

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

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

There’s never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.

Think Big and make it happen.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

To be successful you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, and then resolve to pay the price to get it.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

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

It is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Stumbling is not the same as falling.

Hope will never be silent.

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Give yourself a little freedom to develop into something or someone you’d actually like to be.