Quotes by Zig Ziglar

Happiness

I"m so optimistic I'd go after Moby Dick in a row boat and take the tartar sauce with me. 

Most of us would be upset If we were accused of being "silly" comes from the old English word "seilig" and it's literal definition is"to be blessed , happy, healthy and prosperous." 

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want the most for what you want now. 

Be helpful.When you see a person without a smile ,Give him yours.

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Hope

Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future. 

When you put faith, hope and love together you can raise positive kids in a negative world. 

Failure is an event, not a person.Yesterday ended last night. 

There are seldom.If ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations. 

You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it. 

Character gets you out of bed; commitment moves you to action .Faith, hope, and discipline Enable you to follow through to completion. 

The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.

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Integrity Character

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves. 

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you. 

Ability can take you the top, but it takes character to keep you there. 

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to his or her commitment to excellence, regardless of his or chosen field of endeavor. 

Keep your thinking right And your business will be right. 

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner . 

What you do off the job is determining factor In how far you will go on the job. 

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job. 

When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level. 

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.With integrity you will do the right thing,so you will have no guilt.With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best. 

When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it. 

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do. 

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind. 

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy- happiness ,joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.

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Self Image

If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't worry about it because you're not stuck either with who you are or where you are. you can grow. You can change .You can be more than you are. 

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it . 

Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do.They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them. 

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. 

You were born to win, but to be the winner you were born to be you must plan to win and prepare to win.Then and only then can you legitimately expect to win. 

When your image improves, your performance improves. 

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love. 

It's not what you know, it's what you use that makes a difference. 

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you. 

Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind. 

You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind. 

Don't be distracted by criticism.Remember-the only taste of success some people have when they take a bite out of you.

Words of Wisdom

"What we think is less than what we know;What we know is less than what we love;What we love is so much less than what there is.And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are."—R.D. Laing (The Politics of Experience)

"When we love, we are the universe and the universe lives in us." —O. Pirmez

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." —Leonardo da Vinci

"You live in illusions and the appearance of things. There is a Reality, you are that Reality. When you recognize this you will realize you are nothing, and being nothing,you are everything. That is all." —Kalu Rinpoche

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is,infinite." —William Blake

"Man has no body distinct from his soul; for that called body is a portion of soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in this age." —William Blake

"Gratitude is the heart's memory." —French Proverb

"My religion is simple, my religion is kindness." —Dalai Llama

"Faith is like a toothbrush. Every person should have one and use it regularly, but he shouldn't try to use someone else's." —J. G. Stipe

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." —G.K.Chesterton

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dwell in the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." —Buddha

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." —The Dalai Lama

"We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time." —T.S. Eliot

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Attracting Success

Self development is all about taking on self responsibility and taking charge of our lives and goals. Personal development and Success is not a choice but a desire.

Personal development in the workplace

Abraham Maslow (1908–1970), proposed a hierarchy of needs with self actualization at the top, defined as:^[1]

… the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.

Since Maslow himself believed that only a small minority of people self-actualize — he estimated one percent^[2] — his hierarchy of needs had the consequence that organizations came to regard self-actualization or personal development as occurring at the top of the organizational pyramid, while job security and good working conditions would fulfill the needs of the mass of employees.

As organizations and labor markets became more global, responsibility for development shifted from the company to the individual. In 1999 management thinker Peter Drucker wrote in the Harvard Business Review:

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: if you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out. But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren’t managing their employees’ careers; knowledge workers must, effectively, be their own chief executive officers. It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.^[3]

Management professors Sumantra Ghoshal of the London Business School and Christopher Bartlett of the Harvard Business School wrote in 1997 that companies must manage people individually and establish a new work contract.^[4] On the one hand the company must allegedly recognize that personal development creates economic value: "market performance flows not from the omnipotent wisdom of top managers but from the initiative, creativity and skills of all employees".

On the other hand, employees should recognize that their work includes personal development and "... embrace the invigorating force of continuous learning and personal development".

The 1997 publication of Ghoshal's and Bartlett's Individualized Corporation corresponded to a change in career development from a system of predefined paths defined by companies, to a strategy defined by the individual and matched to the needs of organizations in an open landscape of possibilities. Another contribution to the study of career development came with the recognition that women’s careers show specific personal needs and different development paths from men. The 2007 study of women's careers by Sylvia Ann Hewlett Off-Ramps and On-Ramps^[5]had a major impact on the way companies view careers. Further work on the career as a personal development process came from study by Herminia Ibarra in her Working Identity on the relationship with career change and identity change,^[6] indicating that priorities of work and lifestyle continually develop through life.

Personal development programs in companies fall into two categories: the provision of employee benefits and the fostering of development strategies.

Employee benefits have the purpose of improving satisfaction, motivation and loyalty. Employee surveys may help organizations find out personal-development needs, preferences and problems, and they use the results to design benefits programs. Typical programs in this category include:

• work-life balance
• time management
• stress management
• health programs
• counseling

Many such programs resemble programs that some employees might conceivably pay for themselves outside work: yoga, sports, martial arts, money-management, positive psychology, NLP, etc.

As an investment, personal development programs have the goal of increasing human capital or improving productivity, innovation or quality. Proponents actually see such programs not as a cost but as an investment with results linked to an organization’s strategic development goals. Employees gain access to these investment-oriented programs by selection according to the value and future potential of the employee, usually defined in a talent management architecture including populations such as new hires, perceived high-potential employees, perceived key employees, sales staff, research staff and perceived future leaders.organizations may also offer other (non-investment-oriented) programs to many or even all employees. Typical programs^[which?] focus on career-development, personal effectiveness, teamwork, and competency-development. Personal development also forms an element in management tools such as personal development planning, assessing one's level of ability using a competency grid, or getting feedback from a 360 questionnaire filled in by colleagues at different levels in the organization.

References

1. ^ Abraham Maslow “A Theory of Human Motivation” originally published in the 1943 Psychological Review, number 50, page 838. Maslow, A. H. (1996). Higher
2. ^ Maslow, A. H. (1996). Higher motivation and the new psychology. In E. Hoffman (Ed.), Future visions: The unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow. Thousands Oaks, CA: Sage, page 89
3. ^ Peter F. Drucker, “Managing Oneself”, Best of HBR 1999.^{[page needed]}
4. ^ Ghoshal, Sumantra; Bartlett Christopher A. (1997) The Individualized Corporation: A Fundamentally New Approach to Management, HarperCollins, page 286
5. ^ Hewlett, Sylvia Ann (2007), Off-Ramps and On-Ramps, Harvard Business School Press. This book shows how women have started to change the traditional career path and how companies adapt to career/lifestyle issues for men as well as for women.
6. ^ Ibarra, Herminia (2003) "2" Working identity : unconventional strategies for reinventing your career Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press pp. 199 ISBN 1578517788 Ibarra discusses career-change based on a process moving from possible selves to "anchoring" a new professional identity.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_development