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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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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

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

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

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

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Gratitude, Attitude

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

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

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Conflict, Ability

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

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

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: America

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can’t see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don’t even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Goals

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

You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

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

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
—Zig Ziglar

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

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

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

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

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

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
—Zig Ziglar

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

There’s often no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you’ll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come!
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Perseverance

Success is just a matter of luck-just ask any failure.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Determination

To respond is positive, to react is negative.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Effectiveness

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

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Discipline

Success is not a destination, it’s a journey.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ability

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