Zig Ziglar Quotes

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Zig Ziglar

Profession : Author

Birth : November 6, 1926

When you make a promise, keep it.

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I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.

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The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

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The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

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Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.

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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

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A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

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It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

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If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

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Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.

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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.

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Only men of character are trusted.

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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

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