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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

1576 | Zig Ziglar: “You Can’t Climb a Smooth Mountain.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness, Education

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On today’s QOD, Zig Ziglar shares two compelling stories about hope, failure, and success.

Source: Hope: The Foundation for Successful Change

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0:00.0

Yo, today's QOD is you can't climb a smooth mountain. Here we go

0:30.0

Welcome back to the quarter of the day show I'm your host, Sean

0:34.6

Crox and a Sean Crox and calm. We got Zig Ziglar on the show

0:38.0

wrapping up the weekend today. Zig is going to talk about the

0:41.5

mountain, the mountain that we all have to climb to reach our

0:45.0

goals. And now for none of us is that mountain smooth. That

0:50.2

mountain's got ups and downs. It's got rocks, it's got obstacles,

0:53.5

it's got switchbacks, it's got all the things right. And nobody

0:56.8

ever gets dropped off on top of the mountain. You got to go

0:59.8

through all the stuff. You got to go through the failures. And

1:03.0

Zig is going to talk about the realities and the opportunities

1:06.3

of failure. And one of the things that's going to fuel you

1:10.0

through the failures is this thing called hope. Zig Ziglar's

1:14.8

coming up.

1:18.8

No, this was stunned most of you because most people when they

1:21.6

see me figure I'm probably in my early 30s or something like

1:24.5

that. But I'm saving the two and the third folks a few months

1:29.1

ago, I stayed on the treadmill at the Cooper Clinic. Three

1:33.0

minutes and 10 seconds longer than I'd been able to stay when

1:36.0

I was 45 years old and in miserable condition. It's amazing

1:42.1

what a little effort every day, a little reading every day, a

1:45.3

little kindness every day, a little thoughtfulness every day. That's

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