Zig Ziglar quotes

“When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.”

— Zig Ziglar

“You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.”

— Zig Ziglar

“It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?”

— Zig Ziglar

“Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.”

— Zig Ziglar

“As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.”

— Zig Ziglar

“It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'”

— Zig Ziglar

“Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.”

— Zig Ziglar

“New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.”

— Zig Ziglar

“If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.”

— Zig Ziglar

“People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.”

— Zig Ziglar

“If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.”

— Zig Ziglar

“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.”

— Zig Ziglar

“It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Every choice you make has an end result.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.”

— Zig Ziglar

“I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.”

— Zig Ziglar

“A goal properly set is halfway reached.”

— Zig Ziglar

“You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.”

— Zig Ziglar

“U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Dreams grow if you grow.”

— Zig Ziglar