Zig Ziglar Quotes

I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

If you deny the fact that things are happening to you, that this is going on, whether it's negative or positive, you're just putting yourself behind the 8-ball because you're not facing it head on and dealing with it in a positive way that you've learned how to.

No matter what twists and turns your life offers you, your ability to be adaptable and flexible will help you to stay open to all of the hidden gifts that difficulty may offer.

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

Life isn't always great, but it's all about how we react to things.

You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether.

Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.

Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

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

It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation.