Top 500 Zig Ziglar Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”

— Zig Ziglar

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2. “Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.”

— Zig Ziglar

3. “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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4. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.”

— Zig Ziglar

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5. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

— Zig Ziglar

6. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.”

— Zig Ziglar

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7. “Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.”

— Zig Ziglar

8. “Make today worth remembering.”

— Zig Ziglar

9. “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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10. “Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.”

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Zig Ziglar

12. “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”

— Zig Ziglar

13. “There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.”

— Zig Ziglar

14. “Go as far as you can see and you will see further.”

— Zig Ziglar

15. “Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.”

— Zig Ziglar

Featured in: Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes

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

— Zig Ziglar

17. “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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18. “Failure is an event, not a person.”

— Zig Ziglar

19. “Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.”

— Zig Ziglar

20. “The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.”

— Zig Ziglar

21. “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

22. “Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”

— Zig Ziglar

23. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

— Zig Ziglar

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24. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

— Zig Ziglar

25. “Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”

— Zig Ziglar

26. “Success is not a destination, it’s a journey.”

— Zig Ziglar

27. “When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.”

— Zig Ziglar

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28. “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.”

— Zig Ziglar

29. “Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be proud, but not arrogant.”

— Zig Ziglar

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30. “The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.”

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Zig Ziglar

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32. “I believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.”

— Zig Ziglar

Featured in: Determination Quotes, Quotes About Believing, Quotes About People

33. “You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.”

— Zig Ziglar

34. “It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through.”

— Zig Ziglar

35. “Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”

— Zig Ziglar

36. “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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37. “Life is a classroom. Only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.”

— Zig Ziglar

38. “The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”

— Zig Ziglar

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39. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”

— Zig Ziglar

40. “It’s not going to be easy, it’s going to be worth it.”

— Zig Ziglar

41. “Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.”

— Zig Ziglar

42. “You can’t hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.”

— Zig Ziglar

Featured in: Goal Quotes

43. “A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.”

— Zig Ziglar

44. “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

45. “Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.”

— Zig Ziglar

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46. “Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.”

— Zig Ziglar

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47. “You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.”

— Zig Ziglar

Featured in: Discipline Quotes, Choices Quotes

48. “It’s not where you start but where you finish that counts.”

— Zig Ziglar

49. “Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don’t like your life, start making better choices.”

— Zig Ziglar

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50. “If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”

— Zig Ziglar

Featured in: Failure Quotes