“If you’re sincere, praise is effective. If you’re insincere, it’s manipulative.”
— Zig Ziglar
“You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.”
“It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.”
“You don’t pay the price for success, you enjoy the benefits of success.”
“Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.”
“If there were no Love, there’d be no grief.”
“By the mile it’s a trial, but by the inch it’s a cinch.”
“The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.”
“Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.”
“When our goals are clearly defined and intelligently set, you have, in essence, taken a major step toward programming your left brain. That frees your right brain to be its creative best.”
“There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.”
“Be firm on principle but flexible on method.”
“Quit counting time and start making time count.”
“Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.”
“Faith is your reaction to God’s ability.”
“With children Love is spelled TIME.”
“Only men of character are trusted.”
“The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.”
“Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.”
“You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.”
“When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, “Let’s go, let’s go,” and ceilings start to move up.”
“Desire is the Mother of Motivation because that is where Motivation is born.”
“Life is a ladder, it’s not a bed.”
“If you don’t like who you are and where you are, don’t worry about it because you’re not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change. You can be more than you are.”
“The way you see your future determines your thinking today. You’re thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the today of your life determines your future.”
“You can never get ahead by trying to get even.”
“The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.”
“The main reason for people’s lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!”
“Once you have accepted yourself, it’s so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.”
“Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success.”
“You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.”
“Failure is often the line of least persistence.”
“Your thinking today determines your performance today.”
“When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”
“Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.”
“God sees everything at once and knows what you are called to do. Our part is not to play God, but to trust God – to believe that our single, solitary life can make a difference.”
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
“You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don’t exist.”
“It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life’s opportunities, and to reach your objectives.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance.”
“The best time to do something significant is between yesterday and tomorrow.”
“Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.”
“Make finding the good in others a priority.”
“You can only see in others what is inside of you.”
“Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.”
“Two sure ways to fail- Think and never do or do and never think.”
“When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.”
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