70+ Zig Ziglar Quotes to Help You Achieve Your Goals

If you don’t plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: You are capable.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

You don’t have to be sick to get better.

Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

You can change everything about your business by changing your thinking about your business.

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

Happiness is the ability to move forward knowing the future will be better than the past.

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

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

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

It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

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

Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running.

Don’t let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

You can’t make it a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Moving from survival to stability, from stability to success, from success to significance.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

You need the plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.

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

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

If you want to reach a goal, you must “see the reaching” in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Fear has two meanings; ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.

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.

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

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

You got to have long-range goals. You go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you will always be able to see further.

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you’ll never end up with a nag.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

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

When you do more than you’re paid for. Eventually, you’ll be paid more than you do.

If you have the character to hang in there when it’s tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.

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

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

If you do not think you deserve success, then you will do things that will keep you from getting success.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

When you stop planning and preparing, you stop winning.

You don’t drown by falling into the water; you only drown if you stay there.

You can start where you are with what you’ve got and go wherever it is you want to go.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

You are the only person on Earth who can use your ability.

Repetition is the mother of learning, and the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

You cannot fly with the eagles if you continue to scratch with the turkeys.

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

You don’t climb the high mountain all by yourself, it is in conjunction with others that we really accomplish the major things in life.

One of the main reasons people fail to reach their full potential is that they are unwilling to risk anything.

You can start from where you are with what you’ve got and go to where it is you want to go.

The greatest cause of a poor image is the absence of unconditional love.

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

We do not stop working and playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop working and playing.

Like sterling silver, love will tarnish unless it is polished with daily applications of interest, involvement, and expressions of love.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength.

Don’t let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they were on the same side.

The real benefit of having goals is what you become by reaching them.

How happy a person depends upon the depth of his gratitude. You will notice at once that the unhappy person has little gratitude toward life, other people, and God.

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

To a child, love is spelled T-I-M-E.

When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and a difference in that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference.

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

Peak performance is dependent on passion, grit, determination, and a willingness to do something poorly until you can do it well.

You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.

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

The story of life repeatedly assures you that if you will use what you have, you will be given more to use.

Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.

I recognize that winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

You cannot consistently perform in a manner that is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.