Zig Ziglar

The great majority of people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can’t hit a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

If you’re going to have to swallow a frog, you don’t want to have to look at that sucker too long!

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

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

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.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.

Sometimes Tina Fey is like a very talented bungee-jumping expert. All it takes Tina to softly say, ‘We can do this, right?’ and I suddenly feel like I can jump off a bridge.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Fear is the great extinguisher of dreams… Conversely, it can be your best mentor and source of motivation.

Every man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential – unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember – the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition … is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration … surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

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

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Feeling is more important than thought.

He climbs highest who helps another up.