Zig Ziglar Quotes

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Doing your best is more important than being the best.
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It’s not the situation [lemon], but the way we react to it [use we make of it] that’s important.
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Intelligent ignorance, a lemon and a lot of desire will help you get what you want out of life.
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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
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He climbs highest, who helps another up.
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Incentive is the soul of success – regardless of your nationality.
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Complacency will kill.
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Give me liberty or give me death.
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I have not yet begun to fight.
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I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
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He does not let what he does not have keep him from using what he does have.
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Free enterprise is the only way to go.
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Freedom, like health, is often appreciated only after we no longer have it.
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You are the only person in existence who can use your potential.
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Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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Success and happiness are not destinations, they’re exciting, never-ending journeys.
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Living has taught me the true application of the theories and concepts I once struggled to understand.
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Money will buy all kinds of things for my family, but it won’t buy their love.
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For years I was so wrapped up in learning and teaching that I was unable to sit back, relax, receive, and enjoy the love and attention I encouraged my readers to give others.
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The key to making it over the top is this: Help enough other people get what they want.
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What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. What you do off the job is the determining factor in how far you will go on the job.
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Employment security = don’t finish your [Self] education
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You can plan, prepare, expect, and make the commitment right where you are, doing exactly what you’re doing.
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When you change your world for the better you have positioned yourself perfectly to change the world of those around you.
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It’s not where you start – it’s where you finish that counts.
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These ten little two-letter words – If it is to be it is up to me – are absolutely valid. The solution is to do it now.
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The most important opinion you have is the one you have of yourself, and the most significant things you say all day are those things you say to yourself.
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One definition of insanity is to believe that you can keep on doing what you’ve been doing and get different results.
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Scientific evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.
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Don’t wait until you feel like taking a positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.
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To eliminate prejudice (self-prejudice included) in our land would enable us to use our greatest resource, which is our people – all of them.
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1990 Top selling T-shirt in Japan – ‘We’re Number One!; Top selling T-shirt in America – ‘Underachiever – And Proud of It!’
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Legal immigrants are four times as likely to become millionaires as are native-born Americans. They do this despite the additional obstacles of language, lack of contacts, culture shock, or separation from family. Or do they become millionaires because they become stronger and more creative as they work through the obstacles?
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The profile of a wealthy person is this: hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline. The average wealthy person has lived all his adult life in the same town. He’s been married once and is still married. He lives in a middle-class neighborhood next to people with a fraction of his wealth. He’s a compulsive saver and investor, and he’s made his money on his own. Eighty percent of America’s millionaires are first-generation rich. (Doesn’t sound like opportunity is dead to me.)
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Check the records. There has never been an undisciplined person who was a champion. Regardless of the field of endeavor, you’ll find this to be true.
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False pride or vanity is a very negative quality and one that gets people into a great deal of trouble.
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All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we’re doing what we have been told or asked to do.
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Once trust is betrayed, moving to the top of the ladder is out of the question.
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Motivation gives you the ‘want to’ and provides the spark to light the fire of knowledge. It enables you to utilize your training and experience while pulling out of you the strength, character; and commitment to keep you going when the going gets tough.
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When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.
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