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.
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.
Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.
Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret
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