Zig Ziglar

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

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

Moving from survival to stability, from stability to success, from success to significance.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I’m convinced it makes all the difference in the world.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

He climbs highest who helps another up.

Done is better than perfect.

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot have, but perseverance all can have.

Risk-taking is the cornerstone of empires.

My philosophy in life is this: if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

I’ve never been terribly interested in why people give, because their motivation is rarely what it seems to be, and it’s almost never true altruism.

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

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

You’re a fighter. Look at everything you’ve overcome. Don’t give up now.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate… is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

The most important thing is to know that you can do it.

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that’s not much – unless you’ve been warned that if you’re even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.