Zig Ziglar (1926 – 2012)
American self-help author and speaker.
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.
When you give a man a dole, you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him of his destiny.
Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.
The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad.
Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person — yesterday ended last night.
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.
There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.
As you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go — you do change your direction to get there.
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.
Happiness is not pleasure — it is victory.
The world's most deadly disease is "hardening of the attitudes."
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income.
Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.
You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily — you are the only one who can do it permanently.
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.