43 Zig Ziglar Quotes To Remember

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Zig Ziglar Quotes

Zig Ziglar will forever be remembered for having some of the most motivational speeches known to man. Here is a recent post on some of the most memorable Zig Ziglar speeches.

Here are 43 Zig Ziglar quotes you need to always remember. Zig was a great man who inspired billions. He left us these quotes and videos to remember him by.

1. “Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
2. “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
3. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
4. “When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.”
5. “Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they’re on the same side. ”
6. “Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.”
7. “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.”
8. “The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.”
9. “A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could”
10. “The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now”
11. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great”
12. “A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.”
13. “Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.”
14. “Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.”
15. “When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you”
16. “A goal properly set is halfway reached.”
17. “The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can’t bit a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.”
18. “If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. ”
19. “If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.”
20. “Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.”
21. “Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.”
22. “Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.”
23. “If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.”
24. “Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.”
25. “Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there”
26. “it’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”
27. “Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.”
28. “When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”
29. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
30. “The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”
31. “Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.”
32. “You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.”
33. “There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.”
34. “Make today worth remembering.”
35. “You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.”
36. “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.”
37. “A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could”
38. “The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now”
39. Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
40. Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
41. If you have enough push, you don’t have to worry about the pull.
42. Success is dependent upon the glands — sweat glands.
43.  Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

R.I.P. Zig Ziglar. He will truly be missed by millions…