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

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

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
—Zig Ziglar

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

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Ambition, Commitment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Weddings, Planning

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For every sale you miss because you’re too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you’re not enthusiastic enough.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Business, Enthusiasm

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

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

Success is dependent upon the glands—sweat glands.
—Zig Ziglar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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