If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig ZiglarRead
Go as far as you can see and you will see further.
Interpretation
Strive to reach your current goals, and you will naturally expand your vision for what's possible.
This quote encourages individuals to take action toward their current aspirations and vision. By pushing yourself to achieve what you can see right now, you'll eventually gain clarity and insight that allows you to envision even greater possibilities for your future.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire employees to pursue their goals.
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.
Once you've found your own voice, the choice to expand your influence, to increase your contribution, is the choice to inspire others to find their voice.
After I failed to win the Most Valuable Player Award in 1960, I made up my mind I'd win the batting title in 1961 for the first time.
Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.
Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.
Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.
I am one of those who will go on doing till all doings are at an end.
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