Zig Ziglar Success Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation

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

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

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

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

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

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

Positive thinking won’t allow you to do anything, but it will allow you to do everything better than negative thinking will.

People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day.

One of the main reasons people fail to reach their full potential is because they are unwilling to risk anything.

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 you are going to be successful, you must develop persistence. How do you do that? It is not easily condensed in one simple statement, but one thing you can be sure of is that your must define your purpose.

desire is the catalyst that enables a person with average ability to compete and win against others with more natural talent.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life … all areas of life.

If you believe as I do that you were born to win, you’re going to have to find your fears and start facing them.

I never worry because I know who I am and I know Whose I am.

Good action today will produce good living tomorrow.

Worry is the most significant factor that relates to the root of negative thinking.

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

One of the main reasons people fail to reach their full potential is because they are unwilling to risk anything. They are fearful of losing, failing, or getting hurt and just want to do the things they believe will keep them safe.

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

you can start from where you are with what you’ve got and go to where it is you want to go.

encouragement and hope are the two most powerful qualities any person can provide to others.

If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.

Practice is simply preparation for success.

Anyone with a Purpose Can Make a Difference

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

When you’ve got a strong enough why, you can always find the how.

The depth of your spirit will determine the height of your success.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.

Value and purpose are about understanding the specific benefits you will help people receive if they receive what you have for them.

When I learned how to plan each day and set specific goals, I became more focused on the things that really make a difference.

Getting knocked down in life is a given; getting up and moving forward is a choice.

The real benefit of having goals is what you become by reaching them.

To reach your full potential, you have to set goals that will stretch you. You must not be afraid of taking risks. You must learn to recognize opportunities and have the courage to pursue them. You have to make better choices that will provide better results. Finally, you need to avoid the negative influences of other people and surround yourself with successful people who will encourage you to pursue your dreams.

winners expect to win, they expect victory, and they expect success!

Surround yourself with people who want the best for you and the people you love!

Opportunity is walking through your life every day in the form of people you meet.

man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

Happiness is not pleasure - it is victory.

If you pay that price daily by planning and preparing and working to become the right kind of person, then you can legitimately expect to have all that life has to offer.

Winning isn’t everything but wanting to win is.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it’s going ahead despite the fear.

A “prospect” has a need for the product, a possible desire to own that product, and the financial capacity to implement that decision. You “spend” time with suspects; you “invest” time with prospects.

As Zig Ziglar said, “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.” Remember, what other people can do, you can do as well. Remember also, success is not a limited resource.

From wherever you are, you can go anywhere you want to go if you pick the right roads to travel.

When you’ve got a strong enough why, you can always fi nd the how.

Please don’t waste your time and the prospect’s time telling them what the product IS. Tell them what it can DO and why it will do it for them.

You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want!

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Success is one thing you can’t pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments every day.  Zig Ziglar

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. Zig Ziglar

Solomon said if you want to be wise you run with the wise; if you want to be a fool, you run with fools.

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

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure. Zig Ziglar

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them. Zig Ziglar

being a winner is much different from having the potential to win. Everyone has the potential; it’s what you do with that potential that really matters.

Much about success is just the result of simply the ability to follow up, follow through, and finish what we started.

Desire is created when something happens in your life that suddenly changes the way you see yourself in relationship to your future.

you are what you are and where you are because of what’s gone into your mind,

The little things in life frequently make the difference in success and failure.

The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.

Hope is the engine of your attitude, and your attitude determines your altitude.

Just as ships are built to sail the seas and planes to fly the heavens, so is man created for a purpose.

It’s the next opportunity that keeps us motivated.

You can't climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Zig Ziglar said, ‘There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

Emotion makes the prospects take action now, and logic enables them to justify the purchase later.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.

you were born to win, but in order to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare to win before you can expect to win.

Desire Is Born With Vision

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Encouragers are people who have been successful themselves. They are people who stepped up and took risks and were able to accomplish things they may not have believed possible. Encouragers are the kind of people you can share your goals with and they will encourage you to go for it. Encouragers will also share their own mistakes with you and tell you how they overcame them to achieve success.

Outside of your relationship with God, the most important relationship you can have is with yourself. I don’t mean that we are to spend all our time focused on me, me, me to the exclusion of others. Instead, I mean that we must be healthy internally—emotionally and spiritually—in order to create healthy relationships with others. Motivational pep talks and techniques for achieving success are useless if a person is weighed down by guilt, shame, depression, rejection, bitterness, or crushed self-esteem. Countless marriages land on the rocks of divorce because unhealthy people marry thinking that marriage, or their spouse, will make them whole. Wrong. If you’re not a healthy single person you won’t be a healthy married person. Part of God’s purpose for every human life is wholeness and health. I love the words of Jesus in John 10:10: “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” God knows we are the walking wounded in this world and He wants the opportunity to remove everything that limits us and heal every wound from which we suffer. Some wonder why God doesn’t just “fix” us automatically so we can get on with life. It’s because He wants our wounds to be our tutors to lead us to Him. Pain is a wonderful motivator and teacher! When the great Russian intellectual Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was released from the horrible Siberian work camp to which he was sent by Joseph Stalin, he said, “Thank you, prison!” It was the pain and suffering he endured that caused his eyes to be opened to the reality of the God of his childhood, to embrace his God anew in a personal way. When we are able to say thank you to the pain we have endured, we know we are ready to fulfill our purpose in life. When we resist the pain life brings us, all of our energy goes into resistance and we have none left for the pursuit of our purpose. It is the better part of wisdom to let pain do its work and shape us as it will. We will be wiser, deeper, and more productive in the long run. There is a great promise in the New Testament that says God comes to us to comfort us so we can turn around and comfort those who are hurting with the comfort we have received from Him (see 2 Corinthians 1:3–4). Make yourself available to God and to those who suffer. A large part of our own healing comes when we reach out with compassion to others.

Maribeau said that "none but men of strong passions are capable of rising to greatness." Tennyson said, "The happiness of a man in his life does not consist in the absence but in the mastering of his passions." Franklin said that "he is a governor that governs his passions and he is a servant that serves them.

Unfortunately, lack of obedience is one of our most difficult problems in America. Many people erroneously believe that being obedient means being subservient to someone else. In reality, it indicates respect for the authority of an authority figure. Realistically speaking, you must respect authority before you can legitimately expect others to respect your authority.

Zig Ziglar (n.d.) one of the most famous motivational speakers/coaches of all time said that “If you can believe it, you can achieve it” That is also a hugely important idea in Spiritually. The idea of faith and believing in things that you cannot see with your physical eye is also a visualization technique. By having faith we are asking ourselves to believe something is true simply by believing it. It's so simple, it's brilliant! God has given us the tools, we just need to tap into them!

Most people have heard of Mahatma Gandhi, the man who led India to independence from British rule. His life has been memorialized in books and film, and he is regarded as one of the great men in history. But did you know Gandhi did not start out as a great hero? He was born into a middle-class family. He had low self-esteem, and that made him reluctant to interact with others. He wasn’t a very good student, either, and he struggled just to finish high school. His first attempt at higher education ended in five months. His parents decided to send him to England to finish his education, hoping the new environment would motivate him. Gandhi became a lawyer. The problem when he returned to India was that he didn’t know much about Indian law and had trouble finding clients. So he migrated to South Africa and got a job as a clerk. Gandhi’s life changed one day while riding on a train in South Africa in the first-class section. Because of his dark skin, he was forced to move to a freight car. He refused, and they kicked him off the train. It was then he realized he was afraid of challenging authority, but that he suddenly wanted to help others overcome discrimination if he could. He created a new vision for himself that had value and purpose. He saw value in helping people free themselves from discrimination and injustice. He discovered purpose in life where none had existed previously, and that sense of purpose pulled him forward and motivated him to do what best-selling author and motivational speaker Andy Andrews calls “persist without exception.” His purpose and value turned him into the winner he was born to be,

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Your attitude determines your altitude. - Zig Ziglar     You

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

Individuals who keep growing in knowledge are the ones who succeed.

You don’t have to be the Zig Ziglar of sales to get promoted; in fact, the key to being noticed by most people of authority is just to show up when needed.

Individuals score points, but teams win games. This is true in athletic events and in life. If you make it in life, your “team” of parents, teachers, ministers, etc., will have played a major role in your success.

But did it grow ninety feet in six weeks or was it ninety feet in five years? You think about it for a moment, and you know it was ninety feet in five years because had there been any year they did not water it and fertilize it, there would have been no Chinese bamboo tree.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.” —HELEN KELLER

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And if you’ve got the wrong plans, I don’t care how many positive qualities you’ve got, you’re going to end up in the wrong place.

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. But a vision and a task are the hope of the world.

To cultivate bravery and courage, reduce uncertainty by being prepared. As Zig Ziglar once said, “Success happens when opportunity meets preparation.” Preparing well for potential outcomes will provide you with a safety net if there is a hiccup, glitch, or temporary setback.

You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.