Top 784 Quotes & Sayings by Zig Ziglar - Page 13
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
It's impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative about ourselves.
We fail our children if we say, 'Don't do as I do, but do as I say'.
When our goals are clearly defined and intelligently set, you have, in essence, taken a major step toward programming your left brain. That frees your right brain to be its creative best.
Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.
Take time to be quiet.
The message is clear. It is not what is happening 'out there.' It is what is happening between your ears. It's your attitude that counts.
To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club.
When you make people feel important, you're going to be ahead of the game.
Every time passionate people fail, they are convinced that they are simply one step closer to fulfilling their dream.
You gotta have goals!
If you are always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in.
Life is a ladder, it's not a bed
It really is true that you are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind, and you can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.
A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.
Action often precedes the feeling.
Once you learn to do something consciously, you can move it into the subconscious and do it well. Everything you do well will be done subconsciously.
When you choose a habit, you also choose the end of that habit.
Attitude and not the Aptitude decide the Altitude you reach in life.
Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.
You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.
Every person has unique gifts, and those gifts give him or her the power and the opportunity to accomplish great things, if he or she learns how to use those gifts and channel them in the right direction.
My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty water less cookware.
Your gratitude attitude determines your life altitude.
By the mile it's a trial, but by the inch it's a cinch.
Quite frequently, he who goes too fast gets there too late - or not at all.
Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.
Trust is the byproduct of integrity.
A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.
If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need.
Never make a promise without a plan.
Most Americans honestly believe America is the most powerful nation on earth, but actualy the most powerful nation is imagi-nation.
To raise positive kids, we as parents must identify the qualities necessary for success, convince our children that they have the potential for success, and show them how to stake their claims in life.
A big shot is a little shot who keeps on shootin'
Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.
Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am responsible for how I handle what happens to me.
Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact.
Say "no" to the good and say "yes" to the best.
You might not be what you say you are, but what you say, you are.
Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.
When you break goal into increment and start controlling your time, things begin to happen.
The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis.
The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others.
When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.
Effort is the key, but direction and loyalty are paramount.
Court each other forever.
As long as you can laugh at you, it won't bother you when others laugh at you.
Children pay more attention to what you do than to what you say.
Mary Kay was the wholesome personification of the American dream. For women everywhere, she brought the impossible dream to life by making it a reality. She was a very wise lady. She was a people person. She was very sensitive to the importance of recognizing people.
Wherever you are there you are!
If you want to catch the right mental attitude, go where that attitude exists. Start by going to the people who have the right mental attitude. If the right people aren't always available, then go the right book, or to the right recording of a dynamic speaker.
Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.
Good values are easier caught than taught.
Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.
To get what you want help others get what they want
You become great by going small thing in a great way.
You never judge a day by the weather!
Even in tragedy, God through His Word offers hope for those who seek and believe. It starts with the promise of a better tomorrow, of life everlasting, of eternal peace. It's called faith, and it offers hope where none existed.
Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.
Failure is an event, it is not a person.
People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.
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