Zig Ziglar

Yes, it’s absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly – until you can learn to do it well.

Don’t let mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

We all prospect, and don’t even know we’re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you’re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

We cannot start over, but we can begin now and make a new ending.

You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things to compete. You can just be an ordinary person, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

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.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

To be successful you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, and then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

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

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot in front of the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.