Zig Ziglar Quotes
American - Author November 6, 1926 - November 28, 2012


What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
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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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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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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.
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Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
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You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
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Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.
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Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
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The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
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When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
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Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
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You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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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.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.
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Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
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Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
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Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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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.
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You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
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Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!
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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.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.
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You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.
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Every choice you make has an end result.
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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.
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
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Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
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I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'
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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.
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New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.
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Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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A goal properly set is halfway reached.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
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The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
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Dreams grow if you grow.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
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Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.
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If you want to earn more, learn more.
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I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.
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Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!
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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
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Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
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We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.
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If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
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A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.
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Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
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If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
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Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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He climbs highest who helps another up.
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As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
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It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.
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Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.
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People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
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In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!
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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.
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You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have.
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The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
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