Zig Ziglar - Guidance

If you're sincere, praise is efective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.

The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

It's not the situation, but wheather we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that's important.

There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

You can finish school, and even make it easy -but you never finish your education,and it's seldom easy.

The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the"love account."

You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.

Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.

You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.