Og Mandino Quotes

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

If I persist long enough I will win.

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.

The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

Success and rest don't sleep together.

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

I will greet this day with love in my heart.

We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves.

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

Do all things with love.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.

Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.

Realize how good you really are.

A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

True happiness lies within you.

Cherish each hour of this day for it can NEVER return.

You can't conquer reality by running away from it.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Never settle for the crumbs of life.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.