Zig Ziglar
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.Collection: Time
Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.Collection: Money
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.Collection: Great
You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.Collection: Change
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.Collection: Best
Dreams grow if you grow.Collection: Dreams
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.Collection: Society
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.Collection: Success
I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.Collection: Business
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.Collection: Failure
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.Collection: Failure
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.Collection: Failure
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.Collection: Home
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.Collection: Success
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.Collection: Positive
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.Collection: Fear
Success must never be measured by how much money you have.Collection: Success
Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.Collection: Family
To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.Collection: Positive
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.Collection: Positive
I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'Collection: Change
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
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.
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.
If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have.
Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.
Every choice you make has an end result.
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.