Famous Quotes

Some quotes by Zig Ziglar

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

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

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Action often precedes the feeling.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

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

It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

Every choice you make has an end result.

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

True happiness…is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‘em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

Life… is like a grapefruit. It’s orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

Your friend is your needs answered.

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people’s wrath.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.

Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth’.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.