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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotes by Zig Ziglar (American Author)

Inspirational Quotations by Zig Ziglar (American Author)

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) was an American motivational consultant, author, and Christian public speaker renowned for his energy, optimism, and plain-spoken style. His recipe, “The Ziglar Way,” blended homespun wit, sound-bite positivity, and Christian faith to urge people to appreciate the bright side of life.

Ziglar was born in Coffee County in southeastern Alabama. His self-improvement seminars and over thirty books attracted millions of devoted followers to Ziglar’s advice on personal growth, faith, moral strength, character, leadership, and sales.

Ziglar’s bestselling books include See You at the Top (1975,) Secrets of Closing the Sale (1982,) Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others (1986,) Success for Dummies (1998,) and Selling 101 (2003.)

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Success is in the details.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ability

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Friends and Friendship

You can finish school, and even make it easy — but you never finish your education, and it’s seldom easy.
—Zig Ziglar

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, and no trust.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Obstacles, Desire, Difficulty

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Adversity, Success

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Greatness & Great Things

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Failure

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.
—Zig Ziglar

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you’ll never end up with a nag.
—Zig Ziglar

When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation for building winning relationships with all people in this global world of ours.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Tolerance, Communication, Attitude

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
—Zig Ziglar

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

Of all the “attitudes” we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Thankfulness, Attitude

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Expectation, Entrepreneurs, Ability, Preparation, Winners, Winning

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Persuasion

You will make a lousy anybody else, but you are the best you in existence. You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ability, Responsibility, One liners, Being True to Yourself

All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we’re doing what we have been told or asked to do.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition

People buy what they want when they want it more than the money it costs.
—Zig Ziglar

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Weddings, Planning

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him yours.
—Zig Ziglar

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: God

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Effectiveness

Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ability

It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Effectiveness

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Doing Your Best, Ability

When you set goals, something inside of you starts Saying, “Let’s go, let’s go,” and ceilings start to move up.
—Zig Ziglar

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Kindness, Persistence, Ambition

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
—Zig Ziglar

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Criticism, Attitude

When you put faith, hope, and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Children, Faith, Togetherness

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude

Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Future, Hope

If you don’t like who you are and where you are, don’t worry about it because you’re not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change. You can be more than you are.
—Zig Ziglar

The only way to coast is downhill.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition

If you have enough push, you don’t have to worry about the pull.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Effort, Attitude, Worry

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

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