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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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Success is in the details.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it’s better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.
—Zig Ziglar

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

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

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success & Failure, Success, Ability

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

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

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

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

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Friends and Friendship

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

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

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

Success is like a ladder, and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Success

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

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

Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running.
—Zig Ziglar
Topics: Motivation

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

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

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

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

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

Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude not an outcome.
—Zig Ziglar

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