Zig Ziglar

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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.
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Collection: Inspirational
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You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.
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Collection: Gratitude
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When you make a mistake, be excited! Analyze what happened, and learn from it.
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Collection: Mistake
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Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.
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Collection: Inspiring
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The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open.
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Collection: Inspirational
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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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Collection: Success
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Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.
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Collection: Differences
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You know that failure prelude to being the victim of what is criminally wrong.
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Collection: Victim
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If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.
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Collection: Character
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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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Collection: Inspiring
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When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show
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Collection: Strong
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It makes no difference where you go ...there you are.
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Collection: Differences
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You cannot achieve someone else's goals.
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Collection: Goal
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When you do more than you're paid for eventually you will get paid for more than you do. This is a basic truth that also applies to Business, Sales or anything you do. Whatever your endeavor always provide more service than you get paid for and you will develop a reputation that will separate you from the rest.
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Collection: Reputation
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What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. How many good books, do you read each year? How often do you attend workshops? Who do you spend must of your time with?
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Collection: Jobs
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We miss 100 percent of the sales we don’t ask for.
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Collection: Missing
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Opportunity is in the person, not the job.
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Collection: Jobs
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The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.
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Collection: Perseverance
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Individuals score points, but teams win games.
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Collection: Sports
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The way you see things - your attitude - is the most important factor in your success.
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Collection: Attitude
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Motivation fuels the attitude that builds the Confidence necessary to sustain the Persistence.
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Collection: Motivation
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What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.
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Collection: Fall
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Desire is the great equalizer.
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Collection: Desire
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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.
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Collection: Recovery
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You know that he who would be the greatest among you must become the servant of all.
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Collection: Would Be
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Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.
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Collection: Ambition
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?
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Collection: Mind
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Selling is essentially transference of feeling.
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Collection: Feelings
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Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!
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Collection: Funny Things
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Your thinking today determines your performance today.
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Collection: Thinking
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If there were no Love, there'd be no grief
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Collection: Grief
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I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants
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Collection: Business
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Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.
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Collection: Results
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When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.
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Collection: Responsibility
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The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.
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Collection: Family
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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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Collection: Inspirational
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The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
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Collection: Inspirational
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If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.
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Collection: Ambition
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You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them
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Collection: Motivational
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Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others.
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Collection: Motivation
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When you respond to life, that's positive; when you react to life, that's negative.
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Collection: Negative
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People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people.
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Collection: Powerful
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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!
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Collection: Life
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How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.
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Collection: Motivational
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For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition .
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Collection: Competition
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The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.
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Collection: Growth
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Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.
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Collection: Success
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You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have
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Collection: Goal
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It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
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Collection: Inspirational