Zig Ziglar Quotes

Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.

A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.

When you give a man a dole, you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him of his destiny.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

Go so far as you can see and when you get there you will always be able to see farther. … as you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go — you do change your direction to get there.

You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily — you are the only one who can do it permanently.

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.

People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.

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.

The world's most deadly disease is "hardening of the attitudes."

I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least

In agricultural communities, the “firstfruits” are the first crops of the harvest. As a statement to God and a reminder to ourselves, we don’t spend the first part of any increase (raise, bonus, or gift) on ourselves. We take it to God and give it to Him.

You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind; you change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

What you get by achieving your goals, is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.