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.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

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

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

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

What Michelle has done is to remind me every day of the virtues of order.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

My last divorce was in ’68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn’t work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

He didn’t dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

[on Michelle] Like a lot of political spouses, the role was thrust upon her. But I always knew she’d be incredible at it, and put her own unique stamp on the job. That’s because who you see is who she is-the brilliant, funny, generous woman who, for whatever reason, agreed to marry me. I think people gravitate to her because they see themselves in her-a dedicated mom, a good friend, and someone who’s not afraid to poke a little fun at herself from time to time.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you’ll never end up with a nag.

It was a very meaningful ceremony and marriage means a lot to me.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.