Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar (November 6, 1926 – November 28, 2012) was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.
Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.
Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am responsible for how I handle what happens to me.
One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step, because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves, but nothing is accomplished by standing still
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
It's impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative about ourselves.
I suggest the greatest challenge to Christians in the business world is within - making the heart determination (simply put, the choice) to live by God's principles and sticking with it; making the commitment to serving Christ and mankind with our efforts, our gifts and our knowledge.
Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.
It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.
No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure. . . it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it.
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.
You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc. , without character.
Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands.
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have