Zig Ziglar Quotes

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

I try to put a positive spin on things.

To be honest, I've always been a guy who looks at everything with a pretty positive outlook.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Take everything that's bad in your life and look at the positive within it. Don't ever see your glass as half-empty.

For me, I try to always look at the positive.

I choose to focus on the positive.

My mom told me, every weekend, always stay positive no matter what the circumstances. Stuff's gonna go down. It's not gonna be your race. Media is gonna take the bad before the good.

I sort of have to have a positive outlook.