Zig Ziglar

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Don’t let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.

Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.

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

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

Love gets unappreciated a lot of times, but you still gotta keep giving it

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

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.

All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

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

If you haven’t found it yet keep looking.

It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It’s how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It’s how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It’s the language we use.

If you are not willing to learn no one can help you. If you are determined to learn no one can stop you.

It takes a person who is wide-awake to make his dream come true.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

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

A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.

Dream won’t work unless you do.

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.