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To respond is positive, to react is negative.

Zig Ziglar

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Zig Ziglar
Age: 86 †
Born: 1926
Born: November 6
Died: 2012
Died: November 28
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Motivational Speaker
Writer
Coffee County
Alabama
Positive
Students
Attitude
Inspirational
React
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Greatness
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Every person has unique gifts, and those gifts give him or her the power and the opportunity to accomplish great things, if he or she learns how to use those gifts and channel them in the right direction.
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The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.
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The playing field of life is not level, and for you to compete in the game of life, you need an equalizer of some kind. In the old West, the equalizer was the six-shooter. It enabled a little guy to chop a bigger man down to size. Desire is also an equalizer--and nowadays is highly encouraged over a six-shooter!
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Whether you respond to life or react to life determines how far you're gonna go in life.
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When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.
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Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to [grow and] become successful. For that reason it makes sense to be grateful for adversities that help you grow, even if it is only in understanding and compassion for other's suffering.
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The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.
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The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.
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Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories.
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You gotta have goals!
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I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.
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Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?
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F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.
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Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire.
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Court each other forever.
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Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.
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Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
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We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.
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