Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes 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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success & Failure, Ability, Success

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

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Effectiveness

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

Action often precedes the feeling.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can’t get any of the things money won’t buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Character, Sex

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, Being True to Yourself, One liners

Take time to be quiet.
Zig Ziglar

Happiness is not pleasure, it’s victory.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Happiness, Victory, Pleasure

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Effectiveness

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

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar

It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition

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

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Zig Ziglar

Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Organization

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.
Zig Ziglar

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

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Effectiveness

Keep your thinking right and your business will be right.
Zig Ziglar

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

Most of us would be upset If we were accused of being ‘silly’, yet it comes from the old English word ‘seilig’ and it’s literal definition is ‘to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous.’
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude

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

When obstacles arise change your direction to reach your goal, not the decision to get there.
Zig Ziglar

Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Failure

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

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.
Zig Ziglar

Obstacles are the things we see when we take our eyes off our goals.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition

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

Money won’t make you happy, but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Money, Success

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