Zig Ziglar Quotes

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

Winning and losing isn't what's important. The attempt at success and getting to your best self is what matters.

Doing great requires that we become great people, and all of us can become great people.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I have achieved everything that I ever wanted to accomplish in this game and more so, for me, I have been fulfilled.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.

I always want to grow and top myself.