Top 500 Zig Ziglar Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “The way you see people is the way you treat them.”

— Zig Ziglar

402. “You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.”

— Zig Ziglar

403. “Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.”

— Zig Ziglar

404. “Success must never be measured by how much money you have.”

— Zig Ziglar

405. “Over deliver in all you do and soon you will be rewarded for the extra effort.”

— Zig Ziglar

406. “If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.”

— Zig Ziglar

407. “You can finish school, and even make it easy – but you never finish your education, and it’s seldom easy.”

— Zig Ziglar

408. “Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.”

— Zig Ziglar

409. “If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.”

— Zig Ziglar

410. “Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.”

— Zig Ziglar

411. “Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That’s the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR.”

— Zig Ziglar

412. “If we don’t start, it’s certain we can’t arrive.”

— Zig Ziglar

413. “Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?”

— Zig Ziglar

414. “Logic won’t change an emotion but action will.”

— Zig Ziglar

415. “Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.”

— Zig Ziglar

416. “Life is a ladder; it’s not a bed.”

— Zig Ziglar

417. “Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?”

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418. “The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.”

— Zig Ziglar

419. “Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.”

— Zig Ziglar

420. “It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.”

— Zig Ziglar

421. “All you need to find and accomplish God’s purpose in your life is God’s permission and approval – not anyone else’s. When you get in step with Him, there will be a glow on your face that will make people wonder what you’re up to.”

— Zig Ziglar

422. “New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.”

— Zig Ziglar

423. “If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.”

— Zig Ziglar

424. “Possibly the greatest waste in life is the gap between what you are and what you could become.”

— Zig Ziglar

425. “The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.”

— Zig Ziglar

426. “Since belief determines behavior, doesn’t it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?”

— Zig Ziglar

427. “No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.”

— Zig Ziglar

428. “The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the ‘love account.’”

— Zig Ziglar

429. “Failure is often the line of least persistence.”

— Zig Ziglar

430. “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.”

— Zig Ziglar

431. “What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.”

— Zig Ziglar

432. “Every time passionate people fail, they are convinced that they are simply one step closer to fulfilling their dream.”

— Zig Ziglar

433. “One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.”

— Zig Ziglar

434. “True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.”

— Zig Ziglar

435. “Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.”

— Zig Ziglar

436. “If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.”

— Zig Ziglar

437. “If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.”

— Zig Ziglar

438. “The hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth.”

— Zig Ziglar

439. “Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.”

— Zig Ziglar

440. “Nobody on the face of the earth can make you feel inferior without your permission.”

— Zig Ziglar

441. “Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.”

— Zig Ziglar

442. “Wherever you are there you are!”

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443. “The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.”

— Zig Ziglar

444. “If you pump casually, you will pump forever. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen.”

— Zig Ziglar

445. “When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.”

— Zig Ziglar

446. “A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.”

— Zig Ziglar

447. “Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect’s mind.”

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448. “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

449. “Motivation fuels the attitude that builds the Confidence necessary to sustain the Persistence.”

— Zig Ziglar

450. “When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it’s on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.”

— Zig Ziglar