Inspirational Quotes by Zig Ziglar
“It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through.”
“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.”
“When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”
“Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”
“A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.”
“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well.”
“When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you”
topics: life
“Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.”
“Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce.”
“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.”
“If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.”
“You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.”
“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.”
“money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen”
topics: necessities
“Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours. ~”
― Zig Ziglar ,
from Something to Smile about: Encouragement and Inspiration for Life's Ups and Downs
topics: inspirational
“People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.”
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Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar is an American author, salesperson, and motivational speaker. His latest book (as of 2007) is God's Way Is Still the Best Way.
Ziglar worked as a salesman in a succession of companies, during which time his sales skills improved and his interest in motivational speaker grew.
In 1970, Hilary Ziglar went into the business of motivational speaker full-time. He often incorporates his strong Christian values into his enthusiastic speaking. Up until this final career change, he had gone by his given name, Hilary Ziglar. As more associates in the speaking and motivation business called him by the nickname, Zig, he decided to call himself Zig, and it stuck. Millions of his readers and attendees know of Zig Ziglar but few know that Zig is a nickname for Hilary Ziglar of Yazoo City, Mississippi.