Quotes by Zig Ziglar

"Message! With God's help you can change and take control of your life. You plus God equals enough."

"Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.” —Christian Furchtegott Gellert"

"Atitudinea ta, nu aptitudinea, este cea care determina altitudinea ta."

"Two things to remember in life: "Take care of your thoughts when you're alone", and "Take care of your words when you're with people”."

"You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want in life."

"Courage is not the absence of fear; it’s going ahead despite the fear."

"Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems."

"Solomon said if you want to be wise you run with the wise; if you want to be a fool, you run with fools."

"Are you a meaningful specific or a wandering generality ?"

"Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting."

"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."

"With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed, you are free to be and do your best."

"You may not be able to change the world, but when you change your world, you have taken a major step in changing the world. And when you change your world for the better, you have positioned yourself perfectly to change the world of those around you."

"If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner."

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

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

"You don't have to be great to start, you have to start to be great."

"You will have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want."

"Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity."

"You can have anything you want in life, if you just help enough other people get what they want."

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

"If you always do what you've always done, you're always going to get what you've always gotten."

"Money isn’t everything , but it’s right up there with oxygen."

"REMEMBER, When you forgive, you heal, and when you let go, you grow."

"People don't care what you know until they know that you care."

"And if you’ve got the wrong plans, I don’t care how many positive qualities you’ve got, you’re going to end up in the wrong place."

"You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have."

"Fericirea nu este o chestiune referitoare la când - este ACUM! Nu ceea ce ai te face fericit, ceea ce ești te va face fericit!"

"Express gratitude for what you have. This increases the possibility that eventually you will have more to express gratitude for."

"You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever."

"Most men go to their graves with their dreams still inside them."

"Individuals score points, but teams win games. This is true in athletic events and in life. If you make it in life, your “team” of parents, teachers, ministers, etc., will have played a major role in your success."

"Adevărații lideri, care sunt cu adevărat motivați, vor folosi un succes pentru a edifica unul încă și mai mare."

"You don't to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

"A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. But a vision and a task are the hope of the world."

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

"Regardless of your lot in life, build something beautiful on it."

"If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure."

"REMEMBER THAT FAILURE IS AN EVENT, NOT A PERSON."

"What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination."

"A great attitude becomes a great mood, which becomes a great day, which becomes a great year, which becomes a great life."

"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help other people get what they want."

"You can get anything you want in this life if you help enough other people get what they want."

"Motivation doesn't last, neither does shower. That why we need it everyday"

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

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help other people get what they want."

"The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them."

"Optimisme yang sesungguhnya adalah menyadari masalah serta mengenali pemecahannya. Mengetahui kesulitan dan yakin bahwa kesulitan itu dapat diatasi. Melihat yang negatif, tetapi menekankan yang positif. Menghadapi yang terburuk, namun mengharapkan yang terbaik. Mempunyai alasan untuk menggerutu, tapi memilih untuk tersenyum."

"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."

"Today I will be a successful sales professional, and I will learn something today that will make me even more professional tomorrow."

"Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future."

"Happiness is not pleasure - it is victory."

"I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes."

"The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for."

"But did it grow ninety feet in six weeks or was it ninety feet in five years? You think about it for a moment, and you know it was ninety feet in five years because had there been any year they did not water it and fertilize it, there would have been no Chinese bamboo tree."

"You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal."

"You can't climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure."

"It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude."

"When you see a person without a smile, give them yours."

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

"Every sale has five obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust."

"This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward."

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

"When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it."

"When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny."

"Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting."

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

"If we demand a certain answer, we set ourselves up for disappointment, and if disappointment isn’t arrested, it will soon lead to discouragement."

"I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to be the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person. On the other hand, if you marry the right person and treat them wrong, you certainly will have ended up marrying the wrong person."

"It's your ATTITUDE not your APTITUDE that ultimately determines your ALTITUDE!"

"Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come."

"Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale."

"Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it."

"If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life."

"The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year. There´s no sign of growth. Not even a hint. The same thing happens - or doesn´t happen - the second year. And then the third year. The tree is carefully watered and fertilized each year, but nothing shows. No growth. No anything. For eight years it can continue. Eight years! Then - after the eight years of fertilizing and watering have passed, with nothing to show for it - the bamboo tree suddently sprouts and grows thirty feet in three months!"

"There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs."

"I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination."

"Fear is the Fatal killer of Desire."

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations."

"You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over."

"People often say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily."

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

"Chance made us sisters. Hearts made us friends."

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."

"You hit what you aim at, and if you aim at nothing you will hit it every time."

"We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes."

"Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough."

"Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life … all areas of life."

"Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted."

"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."

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come."

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

"With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt."

"The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty."

"When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them."

"If you are going to be successful, you must develop persistence. How do you do that? It is not easily condensed in one simple statement, but one thing you can be sure of is that your must define your purpose."

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

"The 3 C’s of Life: Choices, Chances, Changes. You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change."

"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want."

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be."

"To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E."

"Knowledge is knowing a basket, wisdom is not putting water into it."

"Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude."

"Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker."

"The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for"

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

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."

"Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission."

"Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully."

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you."

"Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people."

"Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there."

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

"If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."

"Go as far as you can see and you will see further."

"Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running."

"Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific."

"F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours."

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

"Make today worth remembering."

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

"Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side."

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

"There are no traffic jams on the extra mile."

"It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts."

"If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time."

"You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want."

"You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life."

"You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind."

"Some people find fault like there is a reward for it."

"Failure is an event not a person."

"Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success."

"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little."

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

"You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself."

"Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily."

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."

"Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs."

"Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?"

"It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have."

"Money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen."

"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

"People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest."

"You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there."

"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."

"U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can’t feed them both."

"Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class."

"If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you."

"Don't count the things you do, do the things that count."

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

"Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable."

"You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm."

"If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves."

"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through."

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

"When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world."

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

"If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."

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

"Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night."

"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well."

"The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals."

"Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce."

"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation."

"Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere."

"When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you"

"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost."

"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."

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

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great"

"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there."

"Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart."

"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now."

"You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

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We all have the ability to succeed. Life proves again and again that if we use what we have, we get even more to use. And if we don't use it, we lose it.

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Until we do something about what we've learned, it's as if we never learned it.

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Success (...) is not an end goal, but a process, the path we are on.

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Most people wait for the conditions to be as favorable as possible before they even lift a finger. They are not willing to reach for the fruit, because they don't understand that you always have to stretch for the fruit. They don't trust their own chances. For them, life is a long-lost game. Their graves could even have this inscription: "He was born then and there, died sixty years later - or when their hearts stopped beating - lived thirty-five years."

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We can only be truly successful in any area of ​​life if we act honestly towards ourselves and our fellow human beings without reservation.

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Our self-image takes us to the top of the stairs or down a slide to the basement. Let's consider ourselves worthy and we will get what we need.

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We would do nothing with other people's abilities if we leave our own unused.

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It doesn't hurt to be careful, because when we point at others, we can notice that three times as many people point back at us.

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I have yet to meet a woman who gave birth to success or failure. They always give birth to either a boy or a girl.

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In order to make the most of our abilities, we must first get rid of our pessimism.

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Even if we can blame others for our past, the key to future development and progress is in our hands.

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There is an elevator next to the stairs leading to the roof, i.e. the top, but unfortunately there is a sign saying that it is not working. For us, this elevator always remains inoperable. If we want to get to the top, we have to use the stairs, and we have to go up them step by step.

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Dishonesty, deception, and fraud may lead to money, but we can gain fewer true friends and peace of mind. This is not a success.

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Honor, strength of character, faith, decency, love and loyalty are indispensable conditions for balanced success, the components of which are health, prosperity and happiness. As we move forward and upward in life, we may discover that if we neglect any of the above, we can only get crumbs of what life has to offer us.

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We have to accept ourselves before we can truly like anyone else.

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Success is somewhat relative. Someone with an annual income of fifty thousand dollars can be considered a failure if he can earn five times that amount. At the same time, an annual income of ten thousand dollars is a tremendous success for those who make good use of their talents and abilities.

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What we get from achieving a goal is not nearly as important as what we become while we achieve it.

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I'm such an optimist that I'd take a boat after Moby Dick and even bring tartar sauce with me.

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Show me an ungrateful, yet happy person!

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If you show patience in an angry moment, you will be saved from a hundred days of sorrow.

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If you do what you need to do, when you need to do it, the day will come when you can do everything you want, when you want.

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People often say that motivation doesn't last long. Well, neither does bathing... That's why you have to dip in it every day.

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Someone once said that a picture is worth ten thousand words. Since then, thousands have quoted his words and millions believe his statement. On the other hand, I am personally convinced that whoever claims this has not read the Gettysburg Address - which Lincoln gave in the Civil War battlefield's heroic cemetery - or the Constitution containing the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, does not know or understand the Twenty-third Psalm, or the Our Father. The mentioned works contain words - only words - but these words changed the fate of nations, the course of history and the lives of millions of people.

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If we don't leave, we certainly won't arrive.

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The greatest sin is to do nothing because we think there is too little we can do.

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The happiest people are not those who get the best of everything, but those who make the best of everything.

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True joy comes from encouraging and leading someone on a path that is right for them.

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If we had the only car in town, it would be an extremely valuable asset, unless it were locked away in the garage and gathering dust. Since there is only one of us, we ourselves are the value, so let's not let our talent lie idle, but use it!

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Since the beginning of time, this earth has supported billions of people. Even today, billions of people are anxious about it, but there has never been, and never will be another one like us. Each of us is a rare, exclusive, uniquely different, unique human specimen. These qualities give us unheard of value.

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We can admire the skill of others, but remember, with the same investment of time and energy, we could significantly improve our own performance. Experience is often the only difference.

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If you don't see yourself as a winner, you can't perform like one.