Zig Ziglar Quotes

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

~ Zig Ziglar

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

~ Zig Ziglar

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.

~ Zig Ziglar

If you do not believe in your product or service enough to offer it to your own family and friends, then you should question the value of what you are selling.

~ Zig Ziglar

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

~ 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

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

~ Zig Ziglar

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

~ Zig Ziglar

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

~ Zig Ziglar

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

~ Zig Ziglar

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

~ Zig Ziglar

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

~ Zig Ziglar

Dreams grow if you grow.

~ Zig Ziglar

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

~ Zig Ziglar

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

~ Zig Ziglar

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

~ Zig Ziglar

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

~ Zig Ziglar

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

~ Zig Ziglar

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

~ Zig Ziglar

We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.

~ Zig Ziglar

Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

~ Zig Ziglar

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

~ Zig Ziglar

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

~ Zig Ziglar

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

~ Zig Ziglar

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

~ Zig Ziglar

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

~ Zig Ziglar

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

~ Zig Ziglar

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

~ Zig Ziglar

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

~ Zig Ziglar

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

~ Zig Ziglar

Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

~ Zig Ziglar

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

~ Zig Ziglar

The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.

~ Zig Ziglar

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

~ Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

~ Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

~ Zig Ziglar

It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

~ Zig Ziglar

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

~ Zig Ziglar

I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

~ Zig Ziglar

All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

~ Zig Ziglar