In Zig Quotes & Sayings

The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one. — Zig Ziglar

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. — Zig Ziglar

Live in such a way that if someone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it. — Zig Ziglar

Opportunity is in the person, not the job. — Zig Ziglar

If you believe in yourself and have passion, you can succeed. — Zig Ziglar

Why we are here is important, but to know where we are going is imperative. It's not what you've got, it's what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out. — Zig Ziglar

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]! — Zig Ziglar

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company. — Zig Ziglar

Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind. — Zig Ziglar

The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God's sight as Rembrandt or anyone else. — Zig Ziglar

When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it. — Zig Ziglar

There is power in words. What you say is what you get. — Zig Ziglar

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models. — Zig Ziglar

Possibly the greatest waste in life is the gap between what you are and what you could become. — Zig Ziglar

What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. How many good books, do you read each year? How often do you attend workshops? Who do you spend must of your time with? — Zig Ziglar

All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world. — Zig Ziglar

When we separate the word business into its component letters, B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S, we find that U and I are both in it. In fact, if U and I were not in business, it would not be business. Furthermore, we discover that U comes before I in business and the I is silent-it is to be seen, not heard. Also, the U in business has the sound of I, which indicates it is an amalgamation of the interests of U and I. When they are properly amalgamated, business becomes harmonious, profitable, and pleasant. — Zig Ziglar

I thought of kissing Astrid under the fire escape. I thought of Norm's rusty microbus and of his father, Cicero, sitting on the busted-down sofa in his old trailer, rolling dope in Zig-Zag papers and telling me if I wanted to get my license first crack out of the basket, I'd better cut my fucking hair. I thought of playing teen dances at the Auburn RolloDrome, and how we never stopped when the inevitable fights broke out between the kids from Edward Little and Lisbon High, or those from Lewiston High and St. Dom's; we just turned it up louder. I thought of how life had been before I realized I was a frog in a pot. I shouted: "One, two, you-know-what-to-do!" We kicked it in. Key of E. All that shit starts in E. — Stephen King

Even in tragedy, God through His Word offers hope for those who seek and believe. It starts with the promise of a better tomorrow, of life everlasting, of eternal peace. It's called faith, and it offers hope where none existed. — Zig Ziglar

If you haven't met Satan face to face, it's because you are running in the same direction. — Zig Ziglar

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. — Zig Ziglar

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you. — Zig Ziglar

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales. — Zig Ziglar

Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it. — Zig Ziglar

One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people. — Zig Ziglar

Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce. — Zig Ziglar

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life! — Zig Ziglar

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things. — Zig Ziglar

In most cases there are obstacle standing between you and those opportunities in life but, I just want you to know that front row seat is available everywhere. — Zig Ziglar

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. — Zig Ziglar

You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence. — Zig Ziglar

But did it grow ninety feet in six weeks or was it ninety feet in five years? You think about it for a moment, and you know it was ninety feet in five years because had there been any year they did not water it and fertilize it, there would have been no Chinese bamboo tree. — Zig Ziglar

The most destitute person in the world is the one without a smile. — Zig Ziglar

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it! — Zig Ziglar

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. — Zig Ziglar

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.' — 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

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in! — Zig Ziglar

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations. — Zig Ziglar

It is a queer weapon, a shotgun. Every effort to secure additional range is well paid for. A bird may be going away at tremendous speed, "burning the air" as a youngster would put it. Seemingly nothing but chain-lightning, which zig-zagged a bit, could stop him. A crack of the gun and that wild flier is dead in the air, a full forty yards away. Right then the conviction comes to us that man never made another weapon so deadly as the shotgun. However, go back another forty yards, set the bird up on the limb of a tree and you might shoot at him all day and not kill him. The shotgun is a deadly weapon but its range is strictly limited and we are ourselves pretty well convinced that nothing less than a two-inch cannon will regularly kill single game-birds at one-hundred yards, with any kind of shot that can be put in the gun. — Charles Askins

You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility. — Zig Ziglar

Why settle for the 'get by' when in the long run the good costs less? — Zig Ziglar

To give a recipe for getting a rough idea, in case you want to, I recommend the following procedure. Select a flat ten-acre ploughed field, so sited that all the surface water of the surrounding country drains into it. Now cut a zig-zag slot about four feet deep and three feet wide diagonally across, dam off as much water as you can so as to leave about a hundred yards of squelchy mud; delve out a hole at one side of the slot, then endeavour to live there for a month on bully beef and damp biscuits, whilst a friend has instructions to fire at you with his Winchester every time you put your head above the surface. — Bruce Bairnsfather

Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment. — Zig Ziglar

When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it! — Zig Ziglar

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. — Zig Ziglar

When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others. — Zig Ziglar

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage. — Zig Ziglar

You were born to win, but in order to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare to win before you can expect to win. — Zig Ziglar

You become great by going small thing in a great way. — Zig Ziglar

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best. — Zig Ziglar

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. — Zig Ziglar

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world. — Zig Ziglar

If you don't have time to invest in a goals program is it possible that you don't have time because you don't have a goals program? — Zig Ziglar

That's exactly the way parents develop positive, successful kids. Don't look for the flaws, warts, and blemishes. Look for the gold, not for the dirt; the good, not the bad. Look for the positive aspects of life. Like everything else, the more good qualities we look for in our children, the more good qualities we are going to find. — Zig Ziglar

Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty. — Zig Ziglar

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount. — Zig Ziglar

All you need to find and accomplish God's purpose in your life is God's permission and approval
not anyone else's. When you get in step with Him, there will be a glow on your face that will make people wonder what you're up to. — Zig Ziglar

The way you see things - your attitude - is the most important factor in your success. — Zig Ziglar

Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for. — Zig Ziglar

If you do not believe in your product or service enough to offer it to your own family and friends, then you should question the value of what you are selling. — Zig Ziglar

Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process. — Zig Ziglar

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale. — Zig Ziglar

Individuals score points, but teams win games. This is true in athletic events and in life. If you make it in life, your "team" of parents, teachers, ministers, etc., will have played a major role in your success. — Zig Ziglar

Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else. — Zig Ziglar

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. — Zig Ziglar

Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from the negative things. — Zig Ziglar

Remember that every man at times stumbles and must be helped up: if he's down, you cannot carry him. The only way in which any man can be helped permanently is to help himself." - Theodore Roosevelt — Zig Ziglar

You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself. — Zig Ziglar

Desire is created when something happens in your life that suddenly changes the way you see yourself in relationship to your future. — Zig Ziglar

If you are always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in. — Zig Ziglar

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission. — 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

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally. — Zig Ziglar

You are the determining factor in your future. Don't let others be your judge and jury with their pity and negative thoughts or feeling. Know that you are here for a reason. Recognize, develop, and use the resources you do have. Others see the surface; you know your heart. — Zig Ziglar

I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me. — Zig Ziglar

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories. — Zig Ziglar

I'm an expert in higher level math. You + God = Enough — Zig Ziglar

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation. — Zig Ziglar

Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others. — Zig Ziglar

Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets. — Zig Ziglar

Whether you respond to life or react to life determines how far you're gonna go in life. — Zig Ziglar

You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life. — Zig Ziglar

Don't let Negative and Toxic people rent space in your head.
Raise the rent and kick them out. — Zig Ziglar

All of us are not born with equal opportunities. But over a period of time, regardless of our parentage, place of birth, prospects in our communities, or education, the day comes when we have to make the choice to let our past teach us - or beat us. — Zig Ziglar

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port. — Zig Ziglar

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people. — Zig Ziglar

How you get up in the morning will play a big part in how high you go up in life. — Zig Ziglar

Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment. — Zig Ziglar

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued. — Zig Ziglar

Success is in the details. — Zig Ziglar

Doubts kill more dreams than failure ever will. Fear is faith in reverse. Fear creates doubt. Replace your fears with faith and your doubts with determination. — Zig Ziglar

It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in the first place. Reading this blog once in a while might also be helpful — Zig Ziglar

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business. — Zig Ziglar

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds. — Zig Ziglar

When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference. — Zig Ziglar

The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED. — Zig Ziglar

The little things in life frequently make the difference in success and failure. — Zig Ziglar

There was joy in getting his blood pressure down ... joy in climbing Mount Everest ... joy in reaching the summits of six more of the world's highest mountains ... joy in building a profitable company providing houses that people could turn into homes ... joy in learning to fly. But he will also tell you there has been no joy as great as giving from what God has blessed him with so that he might bless and serve others. That's the true and ultimate purpose of setting and reaching goals. — Zig Ziglar

Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead! — Zig Ziglar