Zig Zagler's Quotes

 

•  Only when you put in something, you get something out
•  When you have hope for the future, you have power in the present. This power translates into thoughts, these into actions and these into your future.
• A crippled artist was painting a work. It was very painful for him to do it, but he was doing it very beautifully. A man approached him and asked, "Why do you take so much pain for this?" The painter simply replied, "Pain goes, but the beauty lives!"
• Don't expect a reward without putting in effort/work.
  
  • You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
  • It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
  • You have to ''be'' before you can ''do,'' and do before you can ''have.''
  • Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
  • Building a better you is the first step to building a better America (your country).
  • Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
  • You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
  • You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.
  • When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
  • Every choice you make has an end result.
  • You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
  • Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?
  • There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
  • If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.
  • If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
  • You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
  • Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
  • People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
  • 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.
  • What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
  • A goal properly set is halfway reached.
  • You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.
  • 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!
  • If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
  • Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
  • Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
  • Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
  • People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
  • Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
  • 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.
  • The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
  • Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
  • It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
  • Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.
  • Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.
  • Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
  • 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. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
  • You can have anything in the world you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want.
  • You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.
  • The way you see people is the way you treat them.
  • Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.