Zig Ziglar

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.

Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.

Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!

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

If you want to achieve your goals, help others achieve theirs.

For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition .

If you are a complainer you might have already spent your HELP quota.

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.

We cannot build our lives around what might happen tomorrow.

Winning leaders are almost always motivated when the chips are down.

The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.

The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.

There's no way you can look into the game of _x000D_ life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether _x000D_ it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come!

Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact.

Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.

Lord, help me to remember that there are many ways to rejoice in any kind of day you make for us.

To get what you want help others get what they want

Not everyone coming to you with a problem wants a solution. They are attached to the attention it brings them.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses.

First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what YOU are made of.