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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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: Attitude, Tolerance, Communication

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

Start your child’s day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.
Zig Ziglar

When your image improves, your performance improves.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ability

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

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

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Habit, Motivation

Have you ever noticed that people who are the problem never realize it? They’re in denial. They think denial is a river in Egypt!
Zig Ziglar

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: Ability, One liners, Success & Failure, Success

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Jobs, Ambition

There’s not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.
Zig Ziglar

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 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

Selling is essentially transference of feeling.
Zig Ziglar

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

The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition

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

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

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Honesty, Effectiveness

I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Goals, Accomplishment

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
Zig Ziglar

If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you.
Zig Ziglar

Every choice you make has an end result.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Choice, Effectiveness

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

You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power.
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

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

The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank accounts, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the “love account”.
Zig Ziglar
Topics: Family

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