Zig Ziglar

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.

We cannot start over, but we can begin now and make a new ending.

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!

The world’s most deadly disease is hardening of the attitudes.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

For all the hard times and tough challenges I faced during different periods of my life, I think I was lucky or blessed or both. When things looked bleak, a good guide would appear to set me straight. Someone once asked me about the villains who got in my way, the bad guys who wanted to trip me up or take me out. I don’t remember any. Maybe it’s my nature to remember the good and forget the bad, or maybe it’s my destiny to lock onto the righteous for help.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Look in my eyes right now – you see no sunken place.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all-in which case, you fail by default.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

You’re a fighter. Look at everything you’ve overcome. Don’t give up now.

I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage – leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

First they think you’re crazy, then they fight you, and then, all of a sudden, you change the world.

As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.

Dream big and dare to fail.

If you can eliminate all the other choices, the remaining choice, no matter how improbable, is the answer.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here. And don’t give a damn what anyone thinks.