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Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.

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
Happiness
Success
Matter
Lynching
Encouragement
Matters
Choice
Choices
Chance

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Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.
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The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.
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There is power in words. What you say is what you get.
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Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost.
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It really is true that you are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind, and you can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
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In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.
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Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and Start being positive about what could go right.
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Failure is an event, it is not a person.
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