Zig Ziglar Quotes

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

It is important to ask yourself why you’re doing what you’re doing and what purpose it serves in the big picture.

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose.

Education was never my higher calling.

I've always been a great believer that you work as hard as you can and try to have some direction in your life.

I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe I could become a writer. I had a goal. And every day when I got up, there was a reason.

It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift.

Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose.

Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.

If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.

We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen.

To me there's a difference between success and satisfaction. A lot of people have success and no satisfaction. I'm after satisfaction. I

No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He knew the way he thought things should be, and Mr. Harinton was proving that other people--even adults--could feel the same way. Nicholas had something to aim for now. He might not know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but he knew with absolute certainty how he wanted to be.

Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve?

Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive and a reason, most of the time, to accomplish all the things that we want in life.