Best Zig Ziglar Quotes

I heard him speak once, and it was inspiring.  He was late in life but still had much youth in his presentation.  I wish I could come up with such inspiring messages:

• Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
• People often say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.
• Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale.
• Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night’s sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.
• People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
• Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
• Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
• Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
• Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
• Every choice you make has an end result.
• Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
• Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
• Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
• 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.
• If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
• 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.
• If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
• If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
• If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.
• If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you’ll never end up with a nag.
• If you want to reach a goal, you must “see the reaching” in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
• It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
• It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.
• Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
• If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you’ll never end up with a nag.
• People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
• Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
• Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.
• The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
• The way you see people is the way you treat them.
• When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
• You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
• People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
• Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
• Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
• Remember that failure is an event, not a person. You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
• You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
• Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
• You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.
• There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
• Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
• If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.