Zig Ziglar Quotes

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

You can't control the things that happen to you, but you can control the way you feel about them.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

At a big club, sometimes you are going to be in, and sometimes you are going to be out, but it's how you deal with that.

In our personal and professional lives, we are constantly hit with one adversity after the other, most of which we have no control over. But the four things we have total control over is how we react, how we adapt, how we breathe, and how we take action.

In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.

I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

How you deal with things is what matters.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

A big lesson that I'm always having to be reminded of is, you can't control how you feel, but you can control how you respond.