33 quotes found
"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
"Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission."
"The world's most deadly disease is "hardening of the attitudes.""
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity."
"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting — in the trying, not the triumph. 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."
"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."
"People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another."
"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."
"The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad. Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person — yesterday ended last night."
"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."
"Go so far as you can see and when you get there you will always be able to see farther. … as you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go — you do change your direction to get there."
"Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it."
"When you give a man a dole, you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him of his destiny."
"A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others."
"Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence."
"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation."
"There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired."
"Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success."
"If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income."
"Happiness is not pleasure — it is victory."
"Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully."
"Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds."
"Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house."
"Oh, wonderful teacher! Oh, favored disciples! Oh, famous school — that built no marble halls, and collected no grand library, but turned all life into opportunity; made houses and streets and seaside and mountain-tops, places of discipline and recitation and delight! Oh, blest example — shining this day on the pages of history — our example, our dream, our desire!"
"He was Himself forsaken that none of His children might ever need to utter His cry of loneliness."
"We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home."
"At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full."
"He that would speak Divine things in a language which living men of to-day can comprehend, must keep up with the researches and discoveries of men who study nature, and put her words into the speech of the present."
"There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm."
"In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation."
"To live a godly life is the best way to light up a lesson that the teacher can possibly employ."
"The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius."