Zig Ziglar

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

I’ve got to confess I’m a pragmatic optimist myself.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

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

If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

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.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Think Big and make it happen.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

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.

Every day is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Aim for the highest

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.