Zig Ziglar Quotes

Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

Failure is an event, it is not a person.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

There are no failures in life: only learning opportunities.

To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.

Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination.

Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn from their mistakes, failures, and losses. ... When we are focused too much on ourselves, we lose perspective. Humility allows us to regain perspective and see the big picture. ... Humility allows us to let go of perfection and keep trying.

Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they're the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.

Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.

Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier

Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.

Aptitude starts with attitude.

Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don't regret them.

Every experience I have benefits me. I am in the process of positive change.

Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson.

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative emotion that inhibits the optimism required to take on new challenges. You risk living in an alternative universe, where if only you had done this or that differently, things would be better. That's a poor substitute for making your actual life better, or improving the lives of others. Regret briefly, analyze and understand, and then move on, improving the only life you have.

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.

You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.