Inspirational Quotes by Zig Ziglar (American Author)

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Failure

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Weddings, Planning

Positive thinking won’t let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Optimism

You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you will have, be and do in the tomorrow of your life.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Responsibility

Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Hope, Future

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

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Criticism

People often say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Motivation

Be firm on principle but flexible on method.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: One liners

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
Topics: Goals, Vision

Have you ever noticed that people who are the problem never realize it? They’re in denial. They think denial is a river in Egypt!
—Zig Ziglar

Success is like a ladder, and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Money

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

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

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

There’s often no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you’ll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come!
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Perseverance

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
Topics: Success

Individuals score points, but teams win games.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Cooperation

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
Topics: Success

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ability, Success & Failure, Success

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Family

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Discipline

People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Hope

You can’t hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Goals

You can have everything in life you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: People, Leadership, Success

When obstacles arise change your direction to reach your goal, not the decision to get there.
—Zig Ziglar

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

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

Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Motivation

Obstacles are the things we see when we take our eyes off our goals.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition

The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Defeat

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Friends and Friendship

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

You are at the top when you’ve made friends with the past, are focused on the present, and optimistic about your future. … .
—Zig Ziglar

For every sale you miss because you’re too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you’re not enthusiastic enough.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Business, Enthusiasm

The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work—if you won’t.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Work

Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ability

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Winning, Expectation, Winners, Performance

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Optimism, Attitude, Entrepreneurs, Thinking

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition

Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude not an outcome.
—Zig Ziglar

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
—Zig Ziglar

Success is dependent upon the glands — sweat glands.
—Zig Ziglar

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Vision, People

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
—Zig Ziglar

People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
—Zig Ziglar

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Effort, Winners, Winning

You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Confidence

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
—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

It’s your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Achievement, Success & Failure

Success is in the details.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Forgiveness

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition, Persistence, Kindness

You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.
—Zig Ziglar

When you set goals, something inside of you starts Saying, “Let’s go, let’s go,” and ceilings start to move up.
—Zig Ziglar

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
Topics: God

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude

The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Goals

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success, Failure, Attitude

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. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success & Failure, Ability, Success, One liners

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
—Zig Ziglar

When your image improves, your performance improves.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ability

The only way to coast is downhill.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Greatness & Great Things

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Action, Ambition

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude

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
Topics: Ambition, Commitment

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
Topics: Attitude

Money won’t make you happy, but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Money, Success

People buy what they want when they want it more than the money it costs.
—Zig Ziglar

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
Topics: Attitude

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