Zig Ziglar

I’m a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word ‘grow.’

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

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

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

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

Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can’t make the right sort of settlement, so I’m aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

We don’t get what we want, we get what we think we deserve… ask for more.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.

I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.