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Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.

✵ 6. November 1926 – 28. November 2012
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Zig Ziglar Quotes

“Chance made us sisters. Hearts made us friends.”

Zig Ziglar

“The world's most deadly disease is "hardening of the attitudes."”

Zig Ziglar

As quoted in Secrets of Superstar Speakers: Wisdom from the Greatest Motivators of Our Time (2000) by Lilly Walters, p. 96

“Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top (2000)

“When you give a man a dole, you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him of his destiny.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top (2000)

“Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top (2000)

“There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top (2000)

“If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top (2000)

“Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top (2000)

“The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad.
Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person — yesterday ended last night.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top (2000)
Variant: Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

“People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.”

Zig Ziglar

Better than Good: Creating a Life You Can't Wait to Live (2007)

“A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.”

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top (2000)

“Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.”

Zig Ziglar

Though sometimes credited to Ziglar on the internet, this is credited to Marie Fraser in Quote Unquote (1977) by Lloyd Cory
Misattributed