Zig Ziglar Quotes

You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

I am not someone who can be fooled by praise at all. In fact, I quickly sniff out people who are being fake with me. It doesn't go unnoticed with me.

Some people say things they think you want to hear, and some people say the things they are actually thinking.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies

It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

There is flattery in friendship.

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.

False praise is worse than no praise.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

It is foreign to the Cherokee principle to feign friendship where it does not exist.

People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.