Zig Ziglar Quotes

Browse 34 quotes from Zig Ziglar, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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Set a goal so big that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the person who can.
You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions.
Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.
Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
There’s no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
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.
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Forgive yourself for what you didn't know until you learned it.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.
Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph.
It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
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.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
You don't build a business, you build people, and people build the business.
Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it.

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