1154 | Zig Ziglar: “You Cannot Become What You Need to Be by Remaining What You Are.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zig Ziglar highlights the value of patience and resilience as critical contributors to success and shares how the little things or activities that you choose to repeatedly do ultimately make the most significant difference in your life.
According to Zig Ziglar, you cannot become the person you want to be by remaining the same. Thus, he encourages you to see every day as a chance to grow, to learn, and to be better than yesterday. Finally, Zig reminds us small things done repeatedly can have a massive impact. As Confucius once said, "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." So have patience, for it's the small steps we take every day that eventually leads to the biggest changes.
Source: Hope: The Foundation for Successful Change
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| 0:00.0 | Yo today's QLD is you cannot become what you need to be by remaining what you are |
| 0:07.2 | Here we go |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host shine, |
| 0:37.5 | Crox and the shine, Crox and calm. We got Zig Ziglar on the show today. |
| 0:42.8 | And he's talking about one of my favorite topics because you know my philosophy |
| 0:47.1 | on life is little by little, a little becomes a lot. |
| 0:51.2 | And Zig's going to talk about how you are never stuck. |
| 0:54.9 | You're never stuck. You always have the choice to grow and to change. |
| 1:00.4 | And it doesn't have to happen overnight. You can grow and you can change |
| 1:04.6 | little by little. As he says, you can make radical changes in your life with |
| 1:10.7 | minute steps. And he's also going to talk about the power of this thing called hope. |
| 1:17.4 | Here's a. |
| 1:19.4 | You know, as an example to show you what's there that you might not have really |
| 1:23.0 | recognized. When you look at what life has to offer, |
| 1:28.2 | I'd like to share with you about a young man named Vince Robert, 37 years old. |
| 1:32.9 | How old are you? Finish the fields great. How much education do you have? |
| 1:35.8 | He drove a taxi. What's your job? Now under those circumstances, |
| 1:40.0 | mostly would say, well, you know, that's not done that much of a future does he? |
| 1:44.0 | Matter of fact, someday it probably be on government subsidy. |
| 1:47.3 | But one day he went in the bookstore and he bought a book. |
| 1:50.8 | He spent hours in front of the hotels and airports waiting on a fair. |
| 1:54.9 | He bought a book. He bought a Webster's Dictionary. |
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