Zig Ziglar Quotes

It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

I don't know how much longer that's going to last but I can tell you this much: If I was to listen and pay attention to everyone that criticized me for, some rightly and some wrongly, I'd stay home under the bed. I don't mean under the covers, I mean under the bed. I would never have achieved a single thing.

Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics.

The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.

I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.

Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

Everybody is always going to have haters. It comes with the job. You have to have a tough skin and not let it affect you.

People criticising does spur you on. You are always going to get critics.

You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!

I don't mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

I just ignore those who say negative comments against me. Whether I'm doing right or wrong, they would still say the same things against me.

I got joked on. You had people saying I was stupid, that I was lame, that I was feminine, this and that. I was like, 'OK, but I'm still gonna be successful, and you're not.'

If I played a bad game, there's gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

There will always be jealous people and haters: people who assume that if they were in your shoes, they could do what you're doing. That's just the world we live in.

People are looking for a way to tear down anyone who is successful in any arena. That's the way fans are.

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

I just find it crazy what people will critique you on, and you have to take it with a grain of salt. I could be curing cancer, and I would be shunned for it. I mean, that's just the truth. People are crazy, but I like to say for every hater I have 100 people that love me and they think it's motivational, so I try to focus on that. But it's sometimes hard, you know?

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

People will try to label you not good enough, too slow, too old, too many mistakes. You can't stop negative comments or prevent negative labels, but you can choose to not let them hold you back.

Don't let the idiots that like to bring you down, succeed in discouraging you. I let it get to me a while ago, and let me tell you, it feels SO good to come up under it!

These haters can't hold me back.