Quotees Archive

You’ve got to be before you can do and do before you can have.

- Zig Ziglar

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

- Zig Ziglar

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

- Zig Ziglar

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time… the habit takes over.

- Zig Ziglar

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

You can start from where you are with what you’ve got and go to where it is you want to go.

- Zig Ziglar

You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.

- Zig Ziglar

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

- Zig Ziglar

You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

- Zig Ziglar

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

- Zig Ziglar

You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to those situations.

- Zig Ziglar

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

- Zig Ziglar

You don’t build a business –you build people– and then people build the business.

- Zig Ziglar

You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

- Zig Ziglar

You have to BE before you can DO, and DO before you can HAVE.

- Zig Ziglar

You hit what you aim at, and if you aim at nothing you will hit it every time.

- Zig Ziglar

You may have made some mistakes, and you may not be where you want to be, but that has NOTHING to do with your future.

- Zig Ziglar

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

- Zig Ziglar

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

- Zig Ziglar

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

- Zig Ziglar

You will either look back in life and say, I wish I had, or, I’m glad I did.

- Zig Ziglar

You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

- Zig Ziglar

You will have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

- Zig Ziglar

When you’ve got a strong enough why, you can always find the how.

- Zig Ziglar

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

- Zig Ziglar

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

While 9:00 to 5:00 and what happens in the job is important… what happens from 5:00 – 9:00 while you’re off the job is INFINITELY more important.

- Zig Ziglar

Why settle for the ‘get by’ when in the long run the good costs less?

- Zig Ziglar

Winners Evaluate Themselves In A Positive Manner And Look For Their Strengths As They Work To Overcome Weaknesses.

- Zig Ziglar

Winners expect to win, they expect victory, and they expect success!

- Zig Ziglar

Winning isn’t everything but wanting to win is.

- Zig Ziglar

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

Worry is interest paid before it’s due.

- Zig Ziglar

Worry is the most significant factor that relates to the root of negative thinking.

- Zig Ziglar

Yes, it’s absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly – until you can learn to do it well.

- Zig Ziglar

Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it’s yours.

- Zig Ziglar

You are at the top when: You have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future.

- Zig Ziglar

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. It’s an awesome responsibility.

- Zig Ziglar

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

- Zig Ziglar

You can build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

- Zig Ziglar

You can change everything about your business by changing your thinking about your business.

- Zig Ziglar

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

- Zig Ziglar

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

- Zig Ziglar

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone, discipline is what you do for someone.

- Zig Ziglar

What you get by achieving your goals is not nearly as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

- Zig Ziglar

What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination.

- Zig Ziglar

What you sow you reap. What you give.

- Zig Ziglar

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

- Zig Ziglar

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

- Zig Ziglar

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it’s better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

- Zig Ziglar

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

- Zig Ziglar

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

- Zig Ziglar

When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they’ll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don’t.

- Zig Ziglar

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that’s when passion is born.

- Zig Ziglar

When you do more than you’re paid for, eventually you’ll be paid for more than you do.

- Zig Ziglar

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

When you do things the right way, you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear.

- Zig Ziglar

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

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

- Zig Ziglar

When you make a promise, keep it.

- Zig Ziglar

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

- Zig Ziglar

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

- Zig Ziglar

When you throw dirt at people, you’re not doing a thing but losing ground.

- Zig Ziglar

This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock, or an “opportunity” clock?

- 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.

- Zig Ziglar

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

- Zig Ziglar

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

- Zig Ziglar

To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.

- Zig Ziglar

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

To reach your full potential, you have to set goals that will stretch you.

- Zig Ziglar

Today I will be a successful sales professional, and I will learn something today that will make me even more professional tomorrow.

- Zig Ziglar

True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.

- Zig Ziglar

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

- Zig Ziglar

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.

- Zig Ziglar

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.

- Zig Ziglar

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

- Zig Ziglar

Value and purpose are about understanding the specific benefits you will help people receive if they receive what you have for them.

- Zig Ziglar

Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

- Zig Ziglar

We all need a check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin’ thinkin’ which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitude.

- Zig Ziglar

We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin’ thinkin’ which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.

- Zig Ziglar

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

We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning.

- Zig Ziglar

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

- Zig Ziglar

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

- Zig Ziglar

The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.

- Zig Ziglar

The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.

- Zig Ziglar

The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year. There´s no sign of growth. Not even a hint. The same thing happens – or doesn´t happen – the second year. And then the third year. The tree is carefully watered and fertilized each year, but nothing shows. No growth. No anything. For eight years it can continue. Eight years! Then – after the eight years of fertilizing and watering have passed, with nothing to show for it – the bamboo tree suddently sprouts and grows thirty feet in three months!

- Zig Ziglar

The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.

- Zig Ziglar

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

- Zig Ziglar

The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.

- Zig Ziglar

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

- Zig Ziglar

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

- Zig Ziglar

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

- Zig Ziglar

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Zig Ziglar

There has never been a statue erected in honor of a critic.

- Zig Ziglar

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

- Zig Ziglar

There is no elevator to success…you have to take the stairs.

- Zig Ziglar

There was joy in getting his blood pressure down . . . joy in climbing Mount Everest . . . joy in reaching the summits of six more of the world’s highest mountains . . . joy in building a profitable company providing houses that people could turn into homes . . . joy in learning to fly. But he will also tell you there has been no joy as great as giving from what God has blessed him with so that he might bless and serve others. That’s the true and ultimate purpose of setting and reaching goals.

- Zig Ziglar

There’s never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

- Zig Ziglar

There’s plenty of room at the top but not enough room to sit down.

- Zig Ziglar