Zig Ziglar Quotes

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.