“Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.”
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Zig Ziglar
“The real benefit of having goals is what you become by reaching them.”
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Zig Ziglar
“If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.”
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Zig Ziglar
“You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Remember that every man at times stumbles and must be helped up: if he's down, you cannot carry him. The only way in which any man can be helped permanently is to help himself.”
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Zig Ziglar
“What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth. The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker. They are more easily excited; they are more violent and apparent, but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in mature life.”
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Zig Ziglar
“the largest locomotive in the world can be held in its tracks while standing still simply by placing a single one-inch block of wood in front of each of the eight drive wheels. The same locomotive moving at 100 miles per hour can crash through a wall of steel-reinforced concrete five feet thick.
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Zig Ziglar
“the fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.”
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Zig Ziglar
“What you sow you reap. What you give”
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Zig Ziglar
“Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce.”
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Zig Ziglar
“The story of life repeatedly assures you that if you will use what you have, you will be given more to use.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Winning isn’t everything but wanting to win is.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
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Zig Ziglar
“From wherever you are, you can go anywhere you want to go if you pick the right roads to travel.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Several years ago on an extremely hot day, a crew of men were working on the road bed of the railroad when they were interrupted by a slow moving train. The train ground to a stop and a window in the last car— which incidentally was custom made and air conditioned—was raised. A booming, friendly voice called out, “Dave, is that you?” Dave Anderson, the crew chief called back, “Sure is, Jim, and it’s really good to see you.” With that pleasant exchange, Dave Anderson was invited to join Jim Murphy, the president of the railroad, for a visit. For over an hour the men exchanged pleasantries and then shook hands warmly as the train pulled out. Dave Anderson’s crew immediately surrounded him and expressed astonishment that he knew Jim Murphy, the president of the railroad, as a personal friend. Dave then explained that twenty-three years earlier he and Jim Murphy had started work at the railroad on the same day. One of the men, half jokingly and half seriously, asked Dave why he was still working out in the hot sun and Jim Murphy had gotten to be president. Rather wistfully, Dave explained, “Twenty-three years ago I went to work for $1.75 an hour and Jim Murphy went to work for the railroad.”
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Zig Ziglar
