Hilary Hinton or better known as “Zig Ziglar” was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.
Zig Ziglar is the author of 33 books, including his top selling book “See You At The Top” which sold over 1.7 million copies.
Here are 56 Classic Zig Ziglar Quotes:
1. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar
2. “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar
3. “I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.” – Zig Ziglar
4. “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.” – Zig Ziglar
5. “There is little you can learn from doing nothing.” – Zig Ziglar
6. “Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.” – Zig Ziglar
7. “You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar
8. “The way you see people is the way you treat them.” – Zig Ziglar
9. “Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.” – Zig Ziglar
10. “Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.” – Zig Ziglar
11. “Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission” – Zig Ziglar
12. “If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar
13. “You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.” – Zig Ziglar
14. “Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?” – Zig Ziglar
15. “The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.” – Zig Ziglar
16. “There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.” – Zig Ziglar
17. “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
18. “Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” – Zig Ziglar
19. “You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.” – Zig Ziglar
20th Zig Ziglar Quote – “You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.” – Zig Ziglar
21. “People often say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
22. “The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for” – Zig Ziglar
23. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar
24. “If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.” – Zig Ziglar
25. “Failure is an event not a person” – Zig Ziglar
26. “Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.” – Zig Ziglar
27. “Make today worth remembering.” – Zig Ziglar
28. “Every choice you make has an end result.” – Zig Ziglar
29. “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
30. “The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now” – Zig Ziglar
31. “Success is not a destination, it’s a journey.” – Zig Ziglar
32. “It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.” – Zig Ziglar
33. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
34. “Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.” – Zig Ziglar
35. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” – Zig Ziglar
36. “Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.” – Zig Ziglar
37. “Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.” – Zig Ziglar
38. “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.” – Zig Ziglar
39. “If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.” – Zig Ziglar
40th Zig Ziglar Quote – “If you’re sincere, praise is effective. If you’re insincere, it’s manipulative.” – Zig Ziglar
41. “You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.” – Zig Ziglar
42. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
43. “When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.” – Zig Ziglar
44. “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
45. “Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.” – Zig Ziglar
46. “Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale.” – Zig Ziglar
47. “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.” – Zig Ziglar
48. “Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.” – Zig Ziglar
49. “Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” – Zig Ziglar
50. “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” – Zig Ziglar
51. “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
52. “Your business is never really good or bad ‘out there.’ Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.” – Zig Ziglar
53. “People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.” – Zig Ziglar
54. “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” – Zig Ziglar
55. “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” – Zig Ziglar
56. “When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.” – Zig Ziglar