If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig ZiglarRead
Kids don't make up 100 percent of our population, but they do make up 100 percent of our future.
Interpretation
Children are not the majority of people today, but they are the key to our future.
This quote emphasizes the vital role that children play in shaping the future of society. While they may not represent the largest portion of the population today, their potential and development are crucial for what lies ahead, highlighting the importance of nurturing and investing in their growth and education.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of education funding.
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.
Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.