Zig Ziglar

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

Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.

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.

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And the best people give you memories.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: You are capable.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

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

Dream won’t work unless you do.

Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

Due diligence equals increasing your financial IQ daily.

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

Thought is useful when it motivates for action, and a hindrance when it substitutes for action.

The more goals you set, the more goals you get.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday’, that person cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise’.