Zig Ziglar Quotes

Browse 32 quotes from Zig Ziglar, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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A goal properly set is halfway reached.
— Zig Ziglar
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
— Zig Ziglar
If you help people get what they want, you can get what you want.
— Zig Ziglar
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
— Zig Ziglar
Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
— Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions.
— Zig Ziglar
Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can.
— Zig Ziglar
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
— Zig Ziglar
Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
— Zig Ziglar
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
— Zig Ziglar
If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
— Zig Ziglar
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 Ziglar
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 Ziglar
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.
— Zig Ziglar
There's no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.
— Zig Ziglar
Forgive yourself for what you didn't know until you learned it.
— Zig Ziglar
Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.
— Zig Ziglar
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
— Zig Ziglar
You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
— Zig Ziglar
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.
— Zig Ziglar
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it.
— Zig Ziglar
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
— Zig Ziglar
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph.
— Zig Ziglar
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
— Zig Ziglar
Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
— Zig Ziglar
If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.
— Zig Ziglar
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
— Zig Ziglar
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
— Zig Ziglar
You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
— Zig Ziglar
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
— Zig Ziglar
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
— Zig Ziglar
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
— Zig Ziglar

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