Zig Ziglar

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

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

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

All one needs to do is read – books, magazines, research the Internet – and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

Thought is useful when it motivates for action, and a hindrance when it substitutes for action.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

For all the hard times and tough challenges I faced during different periods of my life, I think I was lucky or blessed or both. When things looked bleak, a good guide would appear to set me straight. Someone once asked me about the villains who got in my way, the bad guys who wanted to trip me up or take me out. I don’t remember any. Maybe it’s my nature to remember the good and forget the bad, or maybe it’s my destiny to lock onto the righteous for help.

Think Big and make it happen.

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

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.

Feeling is more important than thought.

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.

It is surprinsingly how easy it is to forget that the way to get things done is to do them.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

The real risk is doing nothing.

The world’s most deadly disease is hardening of the attitudes.