Selected Quotes By Zig Ziglar
"A goal properly set is halfway reached."
Zig Ziglar, Goals, Planning
"Put all excuses aside and remember this: You are capable."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm."
Zig Ziglar, Success
"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, Goals, Life
"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."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere."
Zig Ziglar, Freedom
"When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost."
Zig Ziglar, Success
"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well."
Zig Ziglar, Work
"A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person."
Zig Ziglar, Arrogance
"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation."
Zig Ziglar, Success, Opportunities, Planning
"Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"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, Goals
"You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"Go as far as you can see and you will see further."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"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, Goals, Life
"Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people."
Zig Ziglar, Mistakes
"Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you."
Zig Ziglar, Intelligence/Wisdom
"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, Criticism
"Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully."
Zig Ziglar, Love
"Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for."
Zig Ziglar, Wealth
"Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker."
Zig Ziglar, Success
"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little."
Zig Ziglar, Mistakes, Goals
"F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours."
Zig Ziglar, Courage
"Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
Zig Ziglar, Success
"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
"Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude."
Zig Ziglar, Success
"Failure is an event not a person."
Zig Ziglar, Success
"Some people find fault like there is a reward for it."
Zig Ziglar, Criticism
"You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life."
Zig Ziglar, 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."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want."
Zig Ziglar, Success
"If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"There are no traffic jams on the extra mile."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could."
Zig Ziglar, Success
"Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side."
Zig Ziglar, Sex
"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, Friendship
"Make today worth remembering."
Zig Ziglar, Goals, Time
"You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."
Zig Ziglar, Goals, Success
"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now."
Zig Ziglar, Success, Happiness
"Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
Zig Ziglar, Success
"Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."