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Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.Zig Ziglar
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When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.Zig Ziglar
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Make today worth remembering.Zig Ziglar
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A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they couldZig Ziglar
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There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.Zig Ziglar
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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.Zig Ziglar
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Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.Zig Ziglar
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Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily.Zig Ziglar
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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.Zig Ziglar
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Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.Zig Ziglar
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Fear is the Fatal killer of Desire.Zig Ziglar
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You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.Zig Ziglar
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.Zig Ziglar
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Individuals who keep growing in knowledge are the ones who succeed.Zig Ziglar
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Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.Zig Ziglar
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Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.Zig Ziglar
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Go as far as you can see and you will see further.Zig Ziglar
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If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.Zig Ziglar
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.Zig Ziglar
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You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.Zig Ziglar
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Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you thereZig Ziglar
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Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.Zig Ziglar
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Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.Zig Ziglar
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A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.Zig Ziglar
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The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.Zig Ziglar
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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.Zig Ziglar
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Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.Zig Ziglar
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If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.Zig Ziglar
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How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On the Same Side?Zig Ziglar
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If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.Zig Ziglar
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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.Zig Ziglar
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People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.Zig Ziglar
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.Zig Ziglar
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It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.Zig Ziglar
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Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.Zig Ziglar
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Regardless of your lot in life, build something beautiful on it.Zig Ziglar
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Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life … all areas of life.Zig Ziglar
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.Zig Ziglar
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You can get anything you want in this life if you help enough other people get what they want.Zig Ziglar
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Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.Zig Ziglar
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When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.Zig Ziglar
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Winners Evaluate Themselves In A Positive Manner And Look For Their Strengths As They Work To Overcome Weaknesses.Zig Ziglar
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F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.Zig Ziglar
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You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever.Zig Ziglar
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If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.Zig Ziglar
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You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.Zig Ziglar
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If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.Zig Ziglar
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To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.Zig Ziglar
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You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.Zig Ziglar
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You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.Zig Ziglar
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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.Zig Ziglar
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If you do not believe in your product or service enough to offer it to your own family and friends, then you should question the value of what you are selling.Zig Ziglar
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.Zig Ziglar
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.Zig Ziglar
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Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.Zig Ziglar
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.Zig Ziglar
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.Zig Ziglar
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.Zig Ziglar
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.Zig Ziglar
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.Zig Ziglar
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Dreams grow if you grow.Zig Ziglar
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.Zig Ziglar
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.Zig Ziglar
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.Zig Ziglar
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.Zig Ziglar
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.Zig Ziglar
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Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.Zig Ziglar
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We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.Zig Ziglar
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Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.Zig Ziglar
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I read for the 'ah-ha's, ' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.Zig Ziglar
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'Zig Ziglar
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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.Zig Ziglar
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.Zig Ziglar
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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.Zig Ziglar
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Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.Zig Ziglar
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Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.Zig Ziglar
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.Zig Ziglar
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Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.Zig Ziglar
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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.Zig Ziglar
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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?Zig Ziglar
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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.Zig Ziglar
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.Zig Ziglar
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.Zig Ziglar
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.Zig Ziglar
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.Zig Ziglar
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.Zig Ziglar
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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.Zig Ziglar
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.Zig Ziglar
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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.Zig Ziglar
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.Zig Ziglar
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.Zig Ziglar
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.Zig Ziglar
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.Zig Ziglar
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We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.Zig Ziglar
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.Zig Ziglar
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Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'Zig Ziglar
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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.Zig Ziglar
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You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.Zig Ziglar
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.Zig Ziglar
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Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.Zig Ziglar