Og Mandino Quotes

Today I will be the master of my emotions.

I will work when failures seek rest.

Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.

Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

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.

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.

And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.

Failure is... the highway to success.

Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.

You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.

So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist.

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.

If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

Each problem has a positive side.

Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.

I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.

No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.

Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

I will live this day as if it is my last

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.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools.

Always strive to make the next hour better than this one.

God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve.

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

Today.....I begin a new life".

I will walk where failures fear to walk.

If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.

If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.

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.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?

The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.

So long as there is breath in me, I will persist.