Og Mandino Quotes
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Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.
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I am natures greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me. I am a unique creature.
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Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.
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Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.
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The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.
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Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.
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Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.
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Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles
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... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.
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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.
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Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.
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Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
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No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
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The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.
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What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
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I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
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Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
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My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror.... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.
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All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.
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I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
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Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
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The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
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Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.