Zig Ziglar

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

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

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

True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

I’ve got to confess I’m a pragmatic optimist myself.

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

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

When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards!

All great things begin with a vision … a dream.

There were no role models, there were no other people I knew who were dealing with the same issues that I was dealing with. I had no idea if this was a stage I was going through or not. But I go to the draft board in Brooklyn and I fill out the form and there was a question that said ‘Do you have homosexual tendencies?’ and I check yes. But where-ever I was on line I’d see people I went to high school with and I was afraid of anyone knowing this about me so I kept on falling back into line and falling back into line. If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist. He said ‘I see here you’ve checked the box?’ And I said ‘yup’. He said ‘So do you think you’d have a problem serving in the armed forces?’ I said well you know ‘So many men.’ And I was out of the service.

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

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

It’s absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.