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Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

Zig Ziglar

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Zig Ziglar
Age: 86 †
Born: 1926
Born: November 6
Died: 2012
Died: November 28
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Coffee County
Alabama
Inspirational
Mistakes
Past
Direct
Focus
Control
Mistake
Future
Success
Disappointments
Business
Disappointment

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Rather than shrinking away from your problems, grow bigger than them.
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What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.
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A healthy mind breeds a healthy body and visa versa!
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When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.
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If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
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You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.
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Say no to the good and say yes to the best.
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Surround yourself with optimistic people.
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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.
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Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.
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Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success.
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Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.
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If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action against negative thinking. It's just like with a computer if you change the input, you will change the output.
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When we give it all, we can live with ourselves - regardless of the results.
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Success is in the details.
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There's no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come!
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Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am responsible for how I handle what happens to me.
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