Zig Ziglar Quotes

You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.

Act as if you are the person you want to be.

Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life

Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

I'm self-motivated. I'm motivated for myself to be the best I can be - for me to do that, I have to have my own motivation, my own positive energy.

When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I try to practice with my life.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.