Zig Ziglar Quotes
Enjoy this great collection of Zig Ziglar quotes, a noted motivational speaker, on a wide variety of topics.
Zig Ziglar's original claim to fame was his insider secrets on closing a sale.
He has since become popular for his insights on success, attitude, parenting, marital advice, and much more.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Attitude
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Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.
~ Zig Ziglar
Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?
~ Zig Ziglar
We all need a daily check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin 'thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.
~ Zig Ziglar
It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
~ Zig Ziglar
You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise.
~ Zig Ziglar
Your business is never really good or bad "out there" your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.
~ Zig Ziglar
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Business
If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.
~ Zig Ziglar
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.
~ Zig Ziglar
Keep your thinking right, and your business will be right.
~ Zig Ziglar
When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Character / Integrity
You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy- happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.
~ Zig Ziglar
Character gets you out of bed; commitment moves you to action. Faith, hope, and discipline enable you to follow through to completion.
~ Zig Ziglar
Ability can take you the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
~ Zig Ziglar
When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.
~ Zig Ziglar
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.
~ Zig Ziglar
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.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Children
Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.
~ Zig Ziglar
Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Confidence
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Conflict
You can disagree without being disagreeable.
~ Zig Ziglar
When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.
~ Zig Ziglar
Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Discipline
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.
~ Zig Ziglar
Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do the things you need to do when you need to them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do them!
~ Zig Ziglar
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Education
You can finish school, and even make it easy; but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.
~ Zig Ziglar
Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Excellence
I've got to say “no” to the good so I can say “yes” to the best.
~ Zig Ziglar
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to his or her commitment to excellence, regardless of his or chosen field of endeavor.
~ Zig Ziglar
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Failure
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
~ Zig Ziglar
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
~ Zig Ziglar
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want the most for what you want now.
~ Zig Ziglar
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
~ Zig Ziglar
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.
~ Zig Ziglar
Failure is an event, not a person.
~ Zig Ziglar
It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.
~ Zig Ziglar
Most people who fail in their dream, fail not from lack of ability, but from lack of commitment.
~ Zig Ziglar, See You at the Top
Every time passionate people fail, they are convinced that they are simply one step closer to fulfilling their dream.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Friends
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.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Funny
Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertainment, for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.
~ Zig Ziglar
I’m so optimistic I'd go after Moby Dick in a row boat, and take the tartar sauce with me.
~ Zig Ziglar
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
~ Zig Ziglar
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Goals
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
~ Zig Ziglar
If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
~ Zig Ziglar
The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't hit 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.
~ Zig Ziglar
The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will be able to see farther.
~ Zig Ziglar
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
~ Zig Ziglar
Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.
~ Zig Ziglar
Obstacles are the things that we see when we take our eyes off our goals.
~ Zig Ziglar
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God / Spirituality
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
~ Zig Ziglar
The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God’s sight as Rembrandt or anyone else.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Good Advice
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
~ Zig Ziglar
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
~ Zig Ziglar
Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind.
~ Zig Ziglar
You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.
~ Zig Ziglar
Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, Give him yours.
~ Zig Ziglar
When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation for building winning relationships with all people in this global world of ours.
~ Zig Ziglar
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
~ Zig Ziglar
Make today worth remembering.
~ Zig Ziglar
You never know when a moment and a
few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
~ Zig Ziglar
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.
~ Zig Ziglar
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well.
~ Zig Ziglar
Go as far as you can see and you will see further.
~ Zig Ziglar
Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.
~ Zig Ziglar
If you wait until all the lights are "green" before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
~ Zig Ziglar
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Gratitude
Of all the "attitudes" we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.
~ Zig Ziglar
The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Habit
Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Happy Family Life
The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the "love account."
~ Zig Ziglar
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Insightful
It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.
~ Zig Ziglar
The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't.
~ Zig Ziglar
What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination.
~ Zig Ziglar
When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated others.
~ Zig Ziglar
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.
~ Zig Ziglar
All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.
~ Zig Ziglar
You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.
~ Zig Ziglar
When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.
~ Zig Ziglar
What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.
~ Zig Ziglar
Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do. They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them.
~ Zig Ziglar
Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember-the only taste of success some people have when they take a bite out of you.
~ Zig Ziglar
Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.
~ Zig Ziglar
Every choice you make has an end result.
~ Zig Ziglar
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
~ Zig Ziglar
Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
~ Zig Ziglar
It's not what you've got; it's what you use that makes a difference.
~ Zig Ziglar
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
~ Zig Ziglar
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
~ Zig Ziglar
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.
~ Zig Ziglar
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
~ Zig Ziglar
Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.
~ Zig Ziglar
Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.
~ Zig Ziglar
The way you see people is the way you treat them.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Inspirational
If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't worry about it because you're not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change .You can be more than you are.
~ Zig Ziglar
Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
~ Zig Ziglar
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.
~ Zig Ziglar
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
~ Zig Ziglar
Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.
~ Zig Ziglar
Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Love
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Marriage Advice
Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be "buttered up" from time to time.
~ Zig Ziglar
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
~ Zig Ziglar
If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
~ Zig Ziglar
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.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Money Matters
Money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.
~ Zig Ziglar
There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.
~ Zig Ziglar
Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.
~ Zig Ziglar
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Motivation
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
~ Zig Ziglar
Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.
~ Zig Ziglar
Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Obstacles
Obstacles are the things we see when we take our eyes off our goals.
~ Zig Ziglar
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Optimists
Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Parenting
The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.
~ Zig Ziglar
The best thing a parent can do for a child his to love his or her spouse.
~ Zig Ziglar
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
~ Zig Ziglar
Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Perseverance
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.
~ Zig Ziglar
The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Perspective
If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
~ Zig Ziglar
There are seldom. If ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Positive Mental Attitude
Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
~ Zig Ziglar
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
~ Zig Ziglar
If you want to catch the right mental attitude, go where that attitude exists. Start by going to the people who have the right mental attitude. If the right people aren't always available, then go the right book, or to the right recording of a dynamic speaker.
~ Zig Ziglar
Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. 95% of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Problem Solving
You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Profound
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
~ Zig Ziglar
Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You're the only one who can do it permanently.
When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
~ Zig Ziglar
Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
~ Zig Ziglar
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
~ Zig Ziglar
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
~ Zig Ziglar
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
~ Zig Ziglar
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.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Sales
If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.
~ Zig Ziglar
Selling is essentially transference of feeling.
~ Zig Ziglar
People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
~ Zig Ziglar
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.
~ Zig Ziglar
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Secret to Success
When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
~ Zig Ziglar
Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others.
~ Zig Ziglar
You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.
~ Zig Ziglar
You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.
~ Zig Ziglar
Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical.
~ Zig Ziglar
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
~ Zig Ziglar
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
~ Zig Ziglar
You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Self-Image
When your image improves, your performance improves.
~ Zig Ziglar
The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.
~ Zig Ziglar
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
~ Zig Ziglar
You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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Sisters
Chance made us sisters. Hearts made us friends.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Success
Success is not a destination, it's a journey.
The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.
The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.
~ Zig Ziglar
The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.
~ Zig Ziglar
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.
~ Zig Ziglar
You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.
~ Zig Ziglar
You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.
~ Zig Ziglar
Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.
~ Zig Ziglar
You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power.
~ Zig Ziglar
The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
~ Zig Ziglar
Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.
~ Zig Ziglar
Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments every day.
~ Zig Ziglar
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.
~ Zig Ziglar
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
~ Zig Ziglar
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
~ Zig Ziglar
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.
~ Zig Ziglar
Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
~ Zig Ziglar
Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Time Management
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
~ Zig Ziglar
Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.
~ Zig Ziglar
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Winning
You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
~ Zig Ziglar
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
~ Zig Ziglar
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
~ Zig Ziglar
If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
~ Zig Ziglar
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