Zig Ziglar Quotes

That which you think today becomes that which you are tomorrow.

You will resemble, tomorrow, the DOMINATING THOUGHTS that you keep alive in your mind today!

Whatever you think today becomes what you are tomorrow.

The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.

When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.

Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future.

There's a tendency for us to think that the secret of our success is something that is mystical and maybe someday my time will come. And it's certainly out there somewhere; it's around the bend; it's at the top of the hill.

You can't do BIG things when you think "little".

The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.

Today we are mentally preparing for tomorrow. The thoughts we think, the words we speak, the beliefs we accept, shape our tomorrows.

I could be 80 tomorrow and I'd still be okay. It's all the way you think about things.

I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know?

Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.

The future is destined only for tomorrow's work and today's thoughts.

Expect to succeed even before you start. All winners, no matter what their game, start with the expectations that they are going to succeed. Winners say, "I want to do this and I CAN do this", not "I would like to do this, but I don't think I can."

You become what you think about most. When you continually focus on the fear of failure, failure will become real for you. Look instead at the possibilities. Look at what could happen if only you would attempt it. Sure, it might not succeed completely. Yet even then you will learn something.

In order to make a success of old age, one must begin it earlier, and not try to postpone it as long as possible. In the middle of life we must stop to think, to organize our existence with an eye to a still distant future, instead of allowing ourselves to be entirely sucked into the professional and social whirl. It is then that it is important to give place little by little to less external activities, less technical and more cultural, which will survive the moment of retirement.

Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.

I think the most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything's a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is - if it doesn't get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails.

You can choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness and success instead of ways that don't.

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.