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

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

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

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition

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

We all need a daily check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin’ thinkin’ which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude

The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.
—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: Attitude

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

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

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

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

People often say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Motivation

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

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

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

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Family

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

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

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

You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Confidence

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

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Vision, People

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, Success & Failure

Success is dependent upon the glands—sweat glands.
—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

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

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

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

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

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
—Zig Ziglar

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Winners, Expectation, Performance, Winning

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

Be firm on principle but flexible on method.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: One liners

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

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Money

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

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
—Zig Ziglar

The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Attitude