Zig Ziglar

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Lack of direction not lack of time is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

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.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Focus on what you can control: your actions. How you react to negative feelings will be the key to your success.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

If you can eliminate all the other choices, the remaining choice, no matter how improbable, is the answer.

When you try to come for me, I keep on flourishing.

It’s a blip, not a catastrophe.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

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.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

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.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards!