Zig Ziglar Quotes & Sayings

#1. Gratitude is the most important attitude.

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#2. Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

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#3. Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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#4. I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

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#5. With children Love is spelled TIME.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.

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#8. Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

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#9. Trust is the byproduct of integrity.

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#10. If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

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#11. It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.

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#12. Make finding the good in others a priority

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#13. If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.

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#14. When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

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#15. Negative thinkers always have a negative vision.

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#16. Are you a meaningful specific or a wandering generality ?

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#17. I am truly grateful that faith enables me to move past the question of 'Why?'

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#18. The way you look on the outside has a definite bearing on how you feel and see yourself on the inside.

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#19. 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

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#20. Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

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#21. Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.

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#22. Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.

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#23. Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

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#24. You plus God equals enough.

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#25. Always do the right thing, always be exciting, always be encouraging, and always be learning something new.

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#26. Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.

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#27. The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

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#28. You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

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#29. By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives.

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#30. How happy a person is depends upon the depth of his gratitude. You will notice at once that the unhappy person has little gratitude toward life, other people and God.

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#31. Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.

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#32. I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!

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#33. You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power

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#34. 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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#35. In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.

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#36. For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.

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#37. When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

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#38. 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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#39. After every mistake, we need to understand that we can look back and learn-so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again.

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#40. You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

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#41. Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

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#42. Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

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#43. Every person has unique gifts, and those gifts give him or her the power and the opportunity to accomplish great things, if he or she learns how to use those gifts and channel them in the right direction.

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#44. If you want to catch the right mental attitude, go where that attitude exists. Start by going to the people who have the right mental attitude. If the right people aren't always available, then go the right book, or to the right recording of a dynamic speaker.

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#45. Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

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#46. When there is hope in the future, there is power in the present, and since hope is the foundational quality of all change, there is considerable reason to be excited ...

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#47. Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.

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#48. Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other

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#49. 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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#50. You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

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#51. Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

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#52. Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

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#53. Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for.

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#54. He chooses the beginning of a road, also chooses its outcome.

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#55. Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others.

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#56. The great majority of people are "wandering generalities" rather than "meaningful specifics". The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

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#57. What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination.

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#58. To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.

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#59. Nobody on the face of the earth can make you feel inferior without your permission.

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#60. Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.

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#61. One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.

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#62. Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.

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#63. Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

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#64. If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need.

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#65. When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you

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#66. It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there's always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

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#67. The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.

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#68. I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

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#69. Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.

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#70. Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

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#71. God's way is still the best way.

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#72. 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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#73. I'm not gonna give up, shut up, or let up, until I'm taken up ... as a matter of fact, I'm just getting warmed up.

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#74. A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

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#75. If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.

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#76. If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

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#77. The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.

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#78. To get what you want help others get what they want

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#79. Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

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#80. Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.

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#81. You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have.

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#82. 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.

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#83. Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.

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#84. The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

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