Zig Ziglar Quotes

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have.

From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

True success is what you have done compared to what you could have done.

If you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself.

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

I have never gauged myself against anyone else.

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

My point of view is if you want to move up, examine first yourself.

I have to keep testing myself.

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

I think my game measures up pretty well to myself.

I never judge myself according to the expectations of others. I judge myself by the jobs I've been given over the years and by the extent to which I succeeded in those jobs.

What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.

Dig for feedback on yourself. You need to have the courage to ask for feedback. You need to learn how you can learn how to grow. It is important that you are going to be a lifelong learner.

Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday.

You cannot build a company or manage a life by chasing others; you have to find your success competing against yourself. There will always be a bigger fish.

At all points, you have to look at what you're doing and say, 'Do I want to do this?' 'Am I up to it?' 'Am I strong enough?'