Zig Ziglar famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.
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You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
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God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.
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Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.
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Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily.
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.
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Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success.
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
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You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
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You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.
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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.
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Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
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Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
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You have made some mistakes and you may not be where you want to be, but that has nothing to do with your future.
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It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.
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There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
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Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
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Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.
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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation
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Success is like pumping an old well handle. You have to pump a very long time before you get water. But don't give up or you will have to start all over again.
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You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future
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When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
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Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.
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Where you start is not as important as where you finish.
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
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It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives.
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God never shuts one door without opening a bigger better door. Hang in there. You are closer to success than you may think.
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Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.
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What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.
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You can start where you are with what you've got and go wherever it is you want to go.
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While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.
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The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.
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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
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Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
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Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.
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When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.
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Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
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Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing.
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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.
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F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
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Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
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The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude... The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.
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When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.
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The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.
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Will what I am about to do, bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals?
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There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.
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In the blink of an eye everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may not have that chance again.
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When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. When you do the right things in the right way you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear.
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When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
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Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.
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True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.
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Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty.
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Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret.
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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.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
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The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for
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You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.
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it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.
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Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.
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We are Physical, Mental and Spiritual beings. If you don't deal with ALL OF LIFE you're not going to get all that life has to offer.
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It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
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If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
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You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business.
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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Your attitude is more important that your aptitude.
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Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.
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If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't worry about it because you're not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change. You can be more than you are.
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Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.
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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
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The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
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Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.
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You build a better company by building better people.
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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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.
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Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.
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Possibly the greatest waste in life is the gap between what you are and what you could become.
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A positive attitude and personal motivation allow you to remain excited about what you are doing - no matter how difficult the challenges may be day to day.
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Success and happiness are not destinations, they are exciting, never-ending journeys.
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You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.
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Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
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Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
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