Zig Ziglar citations

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

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

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

“You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.”

“Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours. ~”

“It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.”

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

“It is not your aptitude but your ATTITUDE that decides your altitude in life.”

“U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can’t feed them both.”

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

“Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.”

“Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.”

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

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