Zig Ziglar Quotes

All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect the things they have to do, who just while away their time, eating, sleeping, playing, watching television-such individuals will never experience true happiness, satisfaction or joy.

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

People know I work hard.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

He who is idle shall not eat the bread nor wear the garments of the laborer

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

If you continue working hard and be honest towards your work, then success will come.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.