Zig Quotes

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

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

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Make today worth remembering.

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.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a 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.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

Failure is an event not a person

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

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.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

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.

Go as far as you can see and you will see further.

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

Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation

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

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.

Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce.

You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.

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.

Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?

money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen

You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

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.

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.

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.

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours. ~

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.

U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can’t feed them both.

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you.

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

You hit what you aim at, and if you aim at nothing you will hit it every time.

Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.

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

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care

Years ago, in a motivational seminar by the master, Zig Ziglar, I heard a story about how mediocrity will sneak up on you. The story goes that if you drop a frog into boiling water, he will sense the pain and immediately jump out. However, if you put a frog in room-temperature water, he will swim around happily, and as you gradually turn the water up to boiling, the frog will not sense the change. The frog is lured to his death by gradual change. We can lose our health, our fitness, and our wealth gradually, one day at a time. It might be a cliché, but that’s because it is true: The enemy of “the best” is not “the worst.” The enemy of “the best” is “just fine.

Chance made us sisters. Hearts made us friends.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning

You Can Have Everything In Life You Want, If You Will Just Help Enough Other People Get What They Want.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

It's your ATTITUDE not your APTITUDE that ultimately determines your ALTITUDE!

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs

Fear is the Fatal killer of Desire.

I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.

If you don’t plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

the fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.

When you’re doing hard work, getting rejected, failing, working it out—this is a dumb time to make a situational decision about whether it’s time for a nap or a day off or a coffee break. Zig Ziglar taught me this twenty years ago. Make your schedule before you start. Don’t allow setbacks or blocks or anxiety to push you to say, “hey, maybe I should check my e-mail for a while, or you know, I could use a nap.” If you do that, the lizard brain will soon be trained to use that escape hatch again and again.