Zig Ziglar Quotes

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.

I've always been the porky boy in my head.

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan's most successful tools. He'll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind.

The fad diets are doing way more harm than good.

I grew up loving horror films. But I had to step away since I didn't want all that negative stuff in my psyche. I didn't want to conceptualize those thoughts into my life.

Anxiety is your creativity turned into a weapon that you use to beat yourself up. And this is because anxiety is mostly storytelling - repeating poisonous stories that you've inherited from others. It feeds on your fear.

If there's garbage in one's head, that's what will come out.

Words and images deeply impact the way we view our bodies, and the consequences can be very damaging.

If you see one negative person a lot of people start to get negative, and that's not good for any time.

I have struggled with self-esteem issues since my teens, but it's clear in my first long-ago diary that I didn't start out that way. I acquired my low self-esteem. I learned it.

Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it's because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.