Motivational Zig Ziglar Quotes

Here's a collection of Zig Ziglar quotes to pump you up with motivation and enthusiasm.

Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar (born 6 November 1926) is an American author, salesperson, and motivational speaker. He has published over 48 works, including the 2007 book titled God's Way Is Still the Best Way.
I've gathered some of his best quotes here for you to digest.

You'll find many of these quotes very motivational and inspiring. I hope you'll be inspired and motivated to go after your goals and life plans!

“Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.”~ Zig Ziglar

“Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.”~ Zig Ziglar

“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”~Zig Ziglar

“Every choice you make has an end result.”~Zig Ziglar

“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”~Zig Ziglar

“For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.”~Zig Ziglar

“If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.”~Zig Ziglar

“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”~Zig Ziglar

“If you wait until all the lights are "green" before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.”~Zig Ziglar

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

“It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.”~Zig Ziglar

“I've got to say 'no' to the good so I can say 'yes' to the best.”~Zig Ziglar

“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.”~Zig Ziglar

“Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”~Zig Ziglar

“Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.”~Zig Ziglar

“People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.”~Zig Ziglar

“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”~Zig Ziglar

“People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.”~Zig Ziglar

“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”~Zig Ziglar

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”~Zig Ziglar

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.”~Zig Ziglar

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”~Zig Ziglar

“Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.”~Zig Ziglar

“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”~Zig Ziglar

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. 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.”~Zig Ziglar

“The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches with them, but to reveal theirs.”~Zig Ziglar

“The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.”~Zig Ziglar

“The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.”~Zig Ziglar

“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

“There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.”~Zig Ziglar

“Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.”~Zig Ziglar

“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”~Zig Ziglar

“You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”~Zig Ziglar

“You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.”~Zig Ziglar

“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life, but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.”~Zig Ziglar

“You don't pay the price for success. You pay the price for failure.”~Zig Ziglar

“You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.”~Zig Ziglar

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”~Zig Ziglar

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”~Zig Ziglar

“You've got to 'be' before you can 'do', and you've got to 'do' before you can 'have'. “~Zig Ziglar

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”~Zig Ziglar

“When you do more than what you are paid for, you will soon be paid more for what you do.”~Zig Ziglar

“Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.”~Zig Ziglar

Biography

Zig Ziglar was born in Coffee County, Alabama to parents John Silas Ziglar and Viola Ziglar. He was the tenth of twelve children.
In 1931, when Ziglar was five years old, his father took a management position at a Mississippi farm, and his family moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, where he spent most of his early childhood. In 1932, his father died of a stroke, and his younger sister died two days later.
Ziglar served in the Navy during World War II (circa 1943 to 1945). He was in the Navy V-12 Navy College Training Program, attending the University of South Carolina.
On September 15, 1944, he met his wife, Jeane, at the YWCA in Jackson, Mississippi when he was 17 and she was 16; they married in late 1946.
Ziglar later worked as a salesman in a succession of companies. In 1968 he became a vice president and training director for the Automotive Performance Company, moving to Dallas, Texas.
In 1970 Ziglar went into the business of motivational speaking full-time, with an emphasis on Christian values. Until then he had called himself by his given name, Hilary, but now started using his nickname, Zig, instead.
As of 2010^[update] Ziglar still travels around taking part in motivational seminars, despite a fall down a flight of stairs in 2007 that left him with short-term memory problems.

I really hope this inspires you to stay motivated!
Make it a great day!
Jen McLennan