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365 Thoughts by Zig Ziglar PDF
365 Thoughts by Zig Ziglar PDF
365 Thoughts by Zig Ziglar PDF
Zig Ziglar
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january 1
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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FEBRUARY 1
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If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
— Vince Lombardi
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Gratitude conserves
the vital energies of
a person more than
any other attitude
tested. — Hans Selye
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Skill to do comes
of doing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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MARCH 1
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MARCH
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Success comes from taking the hand you were dealt and
using it to the very best of your ability.
— Ty Boyd
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APRIL 1
APRIL 4
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APRIL 7
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Optimism is the
faith that leads to
achievement. Nothing
can be done without
hope and confidence.
— Helen Keller
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant
of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all
of these.
— George Washington Carver
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APRIL 17
No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it
worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you
to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.
— Lou Holtz
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MAY
MAY 1
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The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves
mankind forward.
— Igor Sikorsky
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MAY 9
Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn
and house look, and people who see you in passing will judge you based on
how clean you keep your car. It’s not always fair, but it has always been true.
Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.
— Lou Holtz
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MAY 13
Blessed are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay
the price to make them come true.
— Henry Viscardi, Jr.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius
will not; Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent.
— Calvin Coolidge
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JUNE 1
Many things will catch your eye, but only a few will
catch your heart...pursue those.
— Anonymous
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Friendship is the
only cement that
will ever hold the
world together.
— Woodrow Wilson
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I learned a great many new words that day. I do not remember what they
all were, but I do know that mother, father, sister, teacher were among
them – words that were to make the world blossom for me “like Aaron’s
rod, with flowers.” It would have been difficult to find a happier child than
I was as I lay in my bed at the close of that eventful day and lived over the
joys it had brought me, and for the first time longed for a new day to come.
— Helen Keller
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Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth,
not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
— John Johnson
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JULY
JULY 1
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JULY 2
It is easy to dodge
our responsibilities, but
we cannot dodge the
consequences of dodging
our responsibilities.
— Sir Josiah Stamp
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An investment in knowledge
pays the best interest.
— Ben Franklin
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It’s not what happens to me, it’s what happens in me. It’s
not the size of the problem, but how I handle the problem
when I fall.
— Greg Horn
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Husbands, if you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, chances are good you
won’t end up with a nag. Wives, if you treat your husband like a champ,
chances are even better that you won’t end up with a chump.
— Zig Ziglar
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In our country you are free to choose but the choices you
make today will determine what you will be, do and have in
the tomorrows of your life.
— Zig Ziglar
AUGUST
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AUGUST
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Procrastination is opportunity’s
natural assassin.
— Victor Kiam
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We can do no great
things – only small
things with great love.
— Mother Teresa
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SEPTEMBER 1
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SEPTEMBER 4
You can have everything in life you want if you will just
help enough other people get what they want.
— Zig Ziglar
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SEPTEMBER 7
You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out.
But you got to dress for all of them.
— Leroy Satchel Paige
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You can’t have rosy thoughts about the future when your mind
is full of blues about the past.
— Tidbits
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You can’t change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly
good present by worrying about the future.
— Anonymous
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OCTOBER 1
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I can’t sit back and fold my hands and think about the
past, for there are thousands of yesterdays but only
one today and...maybe a tomorrow.
— Red Skelton
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Failure is success
if we learn from it.
— Malcolm Forbes
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OCTOBER 25
A well-developed sense
of humor is the pole that
adds balance to your steps
as you walk the tightrope
of life.
— William A. Ward
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NOVEMBER
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No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have all
of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and
setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by
killing time we are killing our own chances for success.
— Denis Waitley
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DECEMBER
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Genius is the
ability to reduce
the complicated
to the simple.
— C. W. Ceram
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I
encourage everyone to reread books several times so that they can
glean every bit of applicable information. Rereading fixes ideas in your
mind that might otherwise slip away. I also suggest that my readers
highlight the words that inspire, motivate, encourage and move them to
new action and thought. As I’ve often said, when you add new information
to what you already know, your creative imagination can mingle the
information and present you with an entirely new perspective on the
subject at hand.
I hope that over time you will find the gems of wisdom, hope and
encouragement that I found when I considered what each of these quotes
meant to me.
— Zig Ziglar
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About the Author
Z
ig Ziglar is an internationally known speaker and the best-selling
author of 27 books including the legendary classics See You at the Top
and S ecrets of Clo sing the S ale. H i s work s have b e en t ra n sl at e d
i nto 40 different languages and dialects. He has been featured on 60 Minutes,
The Today Show, and 20/20. Sixty Minutes says, “He is a legend in the indus-
try — the Bill Gates, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison of enthusiasm.”
From humble beginnings in Yazoo City, Mississippi, to being presented with
the National Speakers Association’s highest award, “The Cavett,” Zig Ziglar is
recognized by his peers as the quintessential motivational genius of our times.
His unique delivery style and powerful messages have earned him many honors.
Today he is considered one of the most versatile authorities on the science of
human potential. Having shared the stage with Presidents Ford, Reagan and
Bush, Generals Norman Schwarzkopf and Secretary of State Colin Powell,
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, and Paul Harvey, Zig Ziglar is one of the most
sought after personal development trainers in the world.
Titans of business, politics and sports consider him to be the single greatest
influence in their lives. His client list includes thousands of businesses, Fortune
500 companies, churches, schools, U.S. government agencies and non-profit
associations.
Zig Ziglar is known as possibly the greatest encourager who has ever lived. His
ability to help people realize their potential is unsurpassed and his belief that,
“You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other peo-
ple get what they want,” has been the foundation of all he has accomplished.
Zig Ziglar and his wife of 61 years, Jean (“the Redhead”), reside in Plano, Texas,
where they attend Prestonwood Baptist Church. He is the father of four children,
grandfather of seven and great-grandfather of eleven.
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