Motivational Zig Ziglar Quotes

If you've been on the self-development arena for a length of time, I believe you would have encountered Zig Ziglar's name or even be familiar with his motivational products.

I've gathered some of his best quotes here for you to digest.

You'll find many of these quotes very motivational and inspiring. I hope you'll be inspired and motivated to go after your goals and life plans!

Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.
-- Zig Ziglar

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.
-- Zig Ziglar

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
-- Zig Ziglar

Every choice you make has an end result.
-- Zig Ziglar

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
-- Zig Ziglar

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.
-- Zig Ziglar

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
-- Zig Ziglar

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
-- Zig Ziglar

If you wait until all the lights are "green" before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
-- Zig Ziglar

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
-- Zig Ziglar

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
-- Zig Ziglar

I've got to say 'no' to the good so I can say 'yes' to the best.
-- Zig Ziglar

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 or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
-- Zig Ziglar

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
-- Zig Ziglar

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
-- Zig Ziglar

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
-- Zig Ziglar

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
-- Zig Ziglar

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
-- Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
-- Zig Ziglar

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
-- Zig Ziglar

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
-- Zig Ziglar

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

Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.
-- Zig Ziglar

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
-- Zig Ziglar

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

The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches with them, but to reveal theirs.
-- Zig Ziglar

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
-- Zig Ziglar

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
-- Zig Ziglar

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.
-- Zig Ziglar

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
-- Zig Ziglar

Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.
-- Zig Ziglar

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
-- Zig Ziglar

You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
-- Zig Ziglar

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

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life, but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
-- Zig Ziglar

You don't pay the price for success. You pay the price for failure.
-- Zig Ziglar

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.
-- 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

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
-- Zig Ziglar

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

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
-- Zig Ziglar

When you do more than what you are paid for, you will soon be paid more for what you do.
-- Zig Ziglar

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
-- Zig Ziglar

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