Zig Ziglar Quotes

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

That which we call sin in others, we call experiment in ourselves.

… moral 5 o’clock shadow

Men condemne the same things in others, which they approve in themselves; on the other side, they publickly commend what they privately condemne;

President Trump's critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.

Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

His motto is "Love Thy Neighbor". His neighbor is an 18 year old hooker.

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they've done themselves.

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.