Top 100 Og Mandino Quotes
#1. And so long as I can laugh never will I be poor.
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#2. Therefore, each hour of this day will I cherish for it can never return.
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#3. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.
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#4. Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
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#5. They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.
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#6. Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh, rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation.
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#7. Green grass grows where dry desert ends.
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#8. Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.
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#9. 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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#10. 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.
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#11. I will work when failures seek rest.
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#12. I would rather try to succeed and fail than try to do nothing and succeed.
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#13. 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.
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#14. There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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#15. Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
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#16. I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to
ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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#19. Let others build a cave with their clay. I will build a castle with mine.
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#20. And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?
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#21. If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life.
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#22. Only a habit can subdue another habit.
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#23. If I persist long enough I will win.
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#24. Richter said, 'Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.'
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#25. All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath
so what does that make today worth?
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#26. I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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#27. Always let your reach exceed your grasp.
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#28. Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
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#29. I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I
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#30. 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.
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#31. Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
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#32. You will move in the direction you are facing.
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#33. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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#34. when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.
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#35. 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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#36. I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.
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#37. Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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#38. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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#39. 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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#40. As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men.
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#41. Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.
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#42. I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.
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#43. Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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#45. You can't conquer reality by running away from it.
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#46. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.
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#47. Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them ... as you make the effort.
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#48. Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
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#49. But be careful not to let yourself slip into the situation where your goals concern only your business or making money. Think of your marriage, your children, and your friends as important areas in which to improve your life.
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#50. Why do we continue to breed little minds who can find no recompense for their own failures other than to belittle and mock the talents, even the dress, of others? When will everyone realize that we are all equal in the eyes of God?
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#51. The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.
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#52. Son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be
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#53. Competition will always place your life in the hands of others, while initiative gives you the freedom to choose your own destiny ...
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#54. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.
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#55. Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.
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#56. A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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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#59. Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
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#60. each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better
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#61. Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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#62. You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.
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#63. 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.
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#65. Never settle for the crumbs of life.
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#66. Men don't fail; they give up trying.
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#67. Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
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#68. Treasure the friendship you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
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#69. My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
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#70. Success is not something that must be deserved or earned. It is more an inherent right - an inherent responsibility. The only qualification for success is that you be you, that you utilize whatever combination of talent you possess to the fullest extent possible.
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#71. So long as I have something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for, I shall be happy.
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#72. My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible.
All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
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#73. If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
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#74. Today I shall give myself in sacrifice and work; for tomorrow I will have nothing to give and there will be none to receive.
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#75. Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat ... Never take yourself too seriously.
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#76. 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.
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#77. Always strive to make the next hour better than this one.
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#78. I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.
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#79. You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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#80. I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
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#81. 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.
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#82. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
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#83. Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.
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#84. Manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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#85. 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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#86. Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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#87. I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.
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#88. to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all.
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#89. 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.
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#90. The rewards are great if one succeeds but the rewards are great only because so few succeed.
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#91. 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.
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#92. It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.
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#93. I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.
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#94. AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
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#95. I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.
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#96. Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple
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#97. God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve.
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#98. usually sees only at Christmas. At last he reached in and tenderly removed his gift of glass from the carton. "A geranium! I cannot believe it. A pelargonium
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#99. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
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#100. 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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