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Zig Ziglar

43 quotes

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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
Zig ZiglarHappiness
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You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Zig ZiglarHappiness
03
Dreams grow if you grow.
Zig ZiglarGrowth
04
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Zig ZiglarFriendship
05
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
Zig ZiglarFriendship
06
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
Zig ZiglarAction
07
Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
Zig ZiglarCourage
08
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 ZiglarMindset
09
Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.
Zig ZiglarFriendship
10
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Zig ZiglarHappiness
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Zig ZiglarSuccess
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You can build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.
Zig ZiglarSelf-belief
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig ZiglarFailure
14
You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Zig ZiglarMindset
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Zig ZiglarLife
16
Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
Zig ZiglarLove
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Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Zig ZiglarHappiness
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Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try.
Zig ZiglarAction
19
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig ZiglarLife
20
Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.
Zig ZiglarAction
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Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
Zig ZiglarWisdom
22
You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
Zig ZiglarCreativity
23
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 ZiglarFreedom
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
Zig ZiglarWisdom
25
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
Zig ZiglarCourage
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People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
Zig ZiglarWisdom
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You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig ZiglarAction
28
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Zig ZiglarTime
29
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig ZiglarFreedom
30
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig ZiglarGrowth
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If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
Zig ZiglarFreedom
32
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
Zig ZiglarTime
33
You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.
Zig ZiglarFreedom
34
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.
Zig ZiglarWisdom
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Life is an echo. What you send out-you get back. What you give - you get.
Zig ZiglarLife
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig ZiglarFailure
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig ZiglarFreedom
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig ZiglarFreedom
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig ZiglarFailure
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Zig ZiglarFailure
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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 ZiglarGrowth
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
Zig ZiglarLife
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Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Zig ZiglarFreedom