Zig Ziglar

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

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

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

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

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.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

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.

Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.

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.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!

One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.

I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

How you see your future is much more important that what has happened in your past.

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.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?