American author & motivational speaker (1926-2012)
I'm often asked, Which is more important--attitude or skill? The answer is that it's somewhat like asking which leg of a three-legged stool is most important. It is my complete conviction, based on a considerable amount of research, that if you have the right attitude, combined with the right skills, and build your attitude and your skills on a solid character base, you can enjoy long-lasting success.
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Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance
Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.
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Born to Win: Find Your Success Code
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
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attributed, Refining Your Style: Learning from Respected Communicators
God created man on purpose, and for a purpose.
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The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar
My core philosophy on winning and motivation is summed up by saying that you were born to win, but in order to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare to win before you can expect to win.
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Born to Win: Find Your Success Code
Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.
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See You at the Top
Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.
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See You at the Top
Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.
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Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World
Failure is an event, it is not a person -- yesterday ended last night.
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See You at the Top
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
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attributed, The Power of Respect: Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success
The world's most deadly disease is "hardening of the attitudes."
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attributed, Secrets of Superstar Speakers: Wisdom from the Greatest Motivators of Our Time
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
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See You at the Top
The playing field of life is not level, and for you to compete in the game of life, you need an equalizer of some kind. In the old West, the equalizer was the six-shooter. It enabled a little guy to chop a bigger man down to size. Desire is also an equalizer--and nowadays is highly encouraged over a six-shooter!
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Born to Win: Find Your Success Code
One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.
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Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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attributed, Trigger Events: How To Find Your Next Customer
You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.
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See You at the Top
Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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attributed, The Subconscious Diet
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
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