If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig ZiglarRead
We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.
Interpretation
Our habits shape who we are over time.
This quote by Zig Ziglar emphasizes the importance of our daily habits in the formation of our character. Just as bricks are stacked to create a strong building, the habits we consistently practice contribute to the development of our personality and moral fiber, highlighting that character is not built overnight but through continued dedication and effort.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal development at a conference.
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.
You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.
Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.
Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.
Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.
I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn't speak.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push up bras.
We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.
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