Hilary Hinton “Zig” Ziglar (b.1926) was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. Zig Ziglar was born in Coffee County in southeastern Alabama to parents John Silas Ziglar and Lila Wescott Ziglar. He was the tenth of twelve children.
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The only way to coast is downhill.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition
You can have everything in life you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success, People
People often say that motivation doesn’t last.
Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar
Positive thinking won’t let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Optimism
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
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.
—Zig Ziglar
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Family
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude
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
People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Hope
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Planning
When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition
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
Individuals score points, but teams win games.
—Zig Ziglar
You can’t hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Goals
The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude
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
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
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
—Zig Ziglar
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
—Zig Ziglar
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
—Zig Ziglar
When obstacles arise change your direction to reach your goal, not the decision to get there.
—Zig Ziglar
The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
—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
Topics: Vision, Goals
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Vision, People
People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
—Zig Ziglar
Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success
Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.
—Zig Ziglar
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
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Thinking, Optimism, Entrepreneurs, Attitude
Obstacles are the things we see when we take our eyes off our goals.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition
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
Among the things you can give and still keep
are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
—Zig Ziglar
Success is dependent upon the glands sweat glands.
—Zig Ziglar
Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Motivation
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
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude, Entrepreneurs
The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work—if you won’t.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Work
When you set goals, something inside of you starts Saying, “Let’s go, let’s go,” and ceilings start to move up.
—Zig Ziglar
You can get anything you want if
you help enough people get what they want
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Leadership
Be firm on principle but flexible on method.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: One liners
Success is in the details.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success
You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Failure
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
Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Future, Hope
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Winning, Winners
What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude
It’s your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success & Failure, Achievement
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
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude, Failure
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success
If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Defeat
You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Confidence
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
—Zig Ziglar
Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude not an outcome.
—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
Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ability
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition, Persistence, Kindness
When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Forgiveness
If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Winning, Expectation, Performance, Winners
Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.
—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
Topics: Success
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 the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success
You can get everything in life you want if
you will just help enough other people get what they want.
—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
The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success
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
You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.
—Zig Ziglar
When your image improves, your performance improves.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ability
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