Top 500 Zig Ziglar Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.”

— Zig Ziglar

302. “Success is like pumping an old well handle. You have to pump a very long time before you get water. But don’t give up or you will have to start all over again.”

— Zig Ziglar

303. “It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.”

— Zig Ziglar

304. “If you haven’t met Satan face to face, it’s because you are running in the same direction.”

— Zig Ziglar

305. “Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.”

— Zig Ziglar

306. “Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.”

— Zig Ziglar

307. “Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost.”

— Zig Ziglar

308. “You can never get ahead by trying to get even.”

— Zig Ziglar

309. “It’s not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that’s important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.”

— Zig Ziglar

310. “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

311. “Today is the tomorrow you were optimistic about yesterday. What are you doing today to make tomorrow as rewarding as you had hoped today would be?”

— Zig Ziglar

312. “Those who won’t take a chance don’t have a chance.”

— Zig Ziglar

313. “When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.”

— Zig Ziglar

314. “Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.”

— Zig Ziglar

315. “When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.”

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316. “Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.”

— Zig Ziglar

317. “It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.”

— Zig Ziglar

318. “You gotta have goals!”

— Zig Ziglar

319. “Whether you respond to life or react to life determines how far you’re gonna go in life.”

— Zig Ziglar

320. “Your thinking today determines your performance today.”

— Zig Ziglar

321. “Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.”

— Zig Ziglar

322. “A smile is your greatest social asset.”

— Zig Ziglar

323. “Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.”

— Zig Ziglar

324. “Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”

— Zig Ziglar

325. “You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don’t exist.”

— Zig Ziglar

326. “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

327. “Every person has unique gifts, and those gifts give him or her the power and the opportunity to accomplish great things, if he or she learns how to use those gifts and channel them in the right direction.”

— Zig Ziglar

328. “Make finding the good in others a priority.”

— Zig Ziglar

329. “When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.”

— Zig Ziglar

330. “Your attitude is more important than your aptitude.”

— Zig Ziglar

331. “People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people.”

— Zig Ziglar

332. “Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.”

— Zig Ziglar

333. “When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, “Let’s go, let’s go,” and ceilings start to move up.”

— Zig Ziglar

334. “Keep your thinking right and your business will be right.”

— Zig Ziglar

335. “Look at the bright side, no matter how old you are, you are younger than you’ll ever be again.”

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Zig Ziglar

337. “Rather than shrinking away from your problems, grow bigger than them.”

— Zig Ziglar

338. “The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.”

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339. “The only way to coast is downhill.”

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Zig Ziglar

341. “The way you look on the outside has a definite bearing on how you feel and see yourself on the inside.”

— Zig Ziglar

342. “There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.”

— Zig Ziglar

343. “You can only see in others what is inside of you.”

— Zig Ziglar

344. “First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what YOU are made of.”

— Zig Ziglar

345. “We are Physical, Mental and Spiritual beings. If you don’t deal with ALL OF LIFE you’re not going to get all that life has to offer.”

— Zig Ziglar

346. “In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.”

— Zig Ziglar

347. “Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.”

— Zig Ziglar

348. “Two sure ways to fail- Think and never do or do and never think.”

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349. “Surround yourself with optimistic people.”

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

— Zig Ziglar