Zig Ziglar

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit every time.

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

The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.

Live your imagination, not your history.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family.

Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability todo, the patience to wait. Put these together and you have achievement.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

I will work day after day like I did my whole life … I’m not going to change anything.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

If you put that effort in, you’ll get what you want.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that’s when passion is born.

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole–the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives — you’ll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that is how we grow.