Fwd: 7 powerful quotes

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From: mike don <mdcharityweb1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:35:29 +0100
Subject: 7 powerful quotes
To: gboloroidz@blogger.com
7 Powerful and Amazingly
Motivational Quotes from Zig
Ziglar
Zig Ziglar was born in 1926 in
Coffee County, Alabama, United
States. He is an American
author, salesperson and a
motivational speaker. He is
over 80 years old and still
travels
around the world attending
motivation seminars to help
people
get stuff done.
Sometimes, a simple quote can
change the way you see
something, and that is what Zig
Ziglar does so well.
With all that said, enjoy the 7
quotes below and think about
how you can apply them to
your own life. Is there
something
that can be improved? What
steps can you take today to
improve what you already
have?
1. "You can have everything in
life that you
want if you will just help
enough other
people get what they want."
Being selfish in life might make
you happy in the short-
term, but sooner or later you 'll
realize that what really
matters is helping others.
It is what brings joy into your
life and gets you up in the
morning. As I went from a
professional poker player to a
more service oriented business,
I started feeling a lot
better.
I am by no means saying to
neglect yourself, because if
you do not help yourself, you
cannot help others, so there's
always a fine line of balance.
2. "The greatest good we can
do for others is not just to share
our riches with them, but to
reveal theirs."
Everyone has at least one gift
and one passion in this life,
usually more. Sometimes we're
blind to what's in front
of us, and we need someone
else to point out the obvious.
It took me a long time to
realize that I really liked
writing. Writing is something
that comes naturally to me,
and I
love it. If it is one of my riches I
do not know, but for now it
certainly seems like it.
3. "Your attitude, not your
aptitude, will determine your
altitude."
It is not your inherent ability
that determines your success,
but your attitude. I've seen
people have everything
delivered to them on a silver
platter and fail miserably. They
gave up at the first sign of
trouble.
I've also seen people succeed
with very little. If you're
determined to succeed, you
won't stop until you do. That's
the way I learned to play poker,
and that's the way I've learned
to make a living online.
I didn't see myself having any
other option than to succeed. I
really like what I do, and I
wasn't going to give it up
easily.
4. "Every choice you make has
an end result."
What kind of choices are you
making today, and how will
they affect your life one day,
one month, one year, or ten
years from now?
Are you constantly avoiding
going after your passion
because you're afraid of what
might happen? Are you
waiting for the stars to align so
you can go after your dreams?
The decisions you make today
are the ones that shape your
life, so choose wisely.
5. "If you learn from defeat, you
haven't really lost."
I failed a lot before I succeeded
and started making a living
online. Although failing hurts, I
no longer look at it as
defeat. I learn from each
failure, and from each mistake I
make.
It may not be obvious what I'm
learning all the time, but
sooner or later it dawns on me.
When you're starting out
with anything new, such as
going after your passion and
your dreams, you will make a
lot of mistakes, and it will
feel like you 're failing, but in
reality, you're making progress.
6. "If you wait until all the lights
are "green" before you leave
home, you'll never get
started on your trip to the top."
This is an excellent quote,
because a lot of people want to
wait until things are perfect
until they start going after
their dreams.
If you're one of them, you most
likely will be waiting your
whole life. If you want to do
something other than you're
doing now, then go after it, and
start doing it in any little way
you can.
Stop waiting for permission.
Stop waiting for things to work
out. Start doing what you can
do today, conquer your
fears and take things from
there.
7. "Sometimes adversity is
what you need to face in order
to become successful."
Adversity doesn't feel nice, but
it is sometimes just what you
need in order to be successful.
We don't have a
crystal ball, so we can't really
see that today's adversity is
tomorrow's success.
Don't judge the mistakes you
make, the failures you have
and the adversity you run into,
because you never know
if all of those things lead to
something wonderful.