One of the main reasons people fail to reach their full potential is because they are unwilling to risk anything. They are fearful of losing, failing, or getting hurt and just want to do the things they believe will keep them safe.

The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad. Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person — yesterday ended last night.

When I am on tour, a lot of times the media will ask me, “Mr. Ziglar, is it really true that you could sell anybody anything?” That’s insane. Only a con artist can sell anybody anything. The real professional can only sell those things he or she truly believes are going to benefit the prospect more than the money they will receive will benefit the professional.

प्रेरणा की माँ के समान है इच्छा मेरी पहली किताब ‘सी यू ऐट द टॉप’ में मैंने कहा था, ‘इच्छा एक ऐसा तत्त्व है, जो साधारणपन के गरम पानी को शानदार सफलतावाली भाप में बदल डालती है।

In those early days, God gave us wonderful experiences to confirm our faith, then sooner or later, He chose a more difficult curriculum for us. Struggles, disappointments, and misunderstandings about the nature of the Christian life threatened our fledgling faith, but the winter season provided the opportunity to go deeper and grow closer to God.

God has made Himself abundantly clear, but like Eve in the Garden, we question His motives, His authority, and His purposes. Satan came to Eve and asked, “Did God really say not to eat of that tree?” (see Genesis 3:1). The correct answer, of course, was, “Yes, but He gave us all the rest of these, and that’s plenty!” But the subtle questioning of God’s authority and goodness was enough to drive a wedge into Eve’s heart. Doubt grew, and she walked away from God.

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Each day came forth from the hand of God newly created and alive with opportunities to do His will. We for our part, can accept and offer back to God every prayer, work, and suffering of the day, no matter how insignificant or unspectacular they may seem to us. Between God and the individual soul, however, there are no insignificant moments: this is the mystery of divine providence.” — WALTER CISZEK