"We can let our past [difficulties and..." - Quote by Zig Ziglar
We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!
More by Zig Ziglar
“Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.”
“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.”
“When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.”
More on Past
“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.”
“It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others - the Dryad, but my real name is Memory. It is I who sits on a tree that keeps on growing, and growing, it is I who reminisces and tells stories.”
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
More on Learning
“I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.”
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
“I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.”