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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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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.
—Zig Ziglar

When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Goals

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
—Zig Ziglar

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success & Failure, Ability, Success

You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you will have, be and do in the tomorrow of your life.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Responsibility

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

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

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Criticism

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 an event, never a person; an attitude not an outcome.
—Zig Ziglar

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

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.
—Zig Ziglar

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Goals, Vision

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

It’s your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Achievement, Success & Failure

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Entrepreneurs, Thinking, Optimism, Attitude

Individuals score points, but teams win games.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Cooperation

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Defeat

When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Forgiveness

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude, Failure, Success

People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Hope

The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work—if you won’t.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Work

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it’s better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.
—Zig Ziglar

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Winning, Effort, Winners

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

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

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

You are at the top when you’ve made friends with the past, are focused on the present, and optimistic about your future. … .
—Zig Ziglar

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

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

Positive thinking won’t let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Optimism

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

You can have everything in life you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: People, Success, Leadership

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. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success, One liners, Success & Failure, Ability

People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
—Zig Ziglar

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
—Zig Ziglar

Success is like a ladder, and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

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