Top 100 Mandino Quotes
#1. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino
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#2. And so long as I can laugh never will I be poor.
Og Mandino
#3. Therefore, each hour of this day will I cherish for it can never return.
Og Mandino
#4. Experience is comparable to fashion; an action that proved successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow. Only principles endure
Og Mandino
#5. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.
Og Mandino
#6. Only action determines my value in the market place and to multiply my value I will multiply my actions.
Og Mandino
#7. 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.
Og Mandino
#8. 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.
Og Mandino
#9. I will walk where failures fear to walk.
Og Mandino
#10. Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh, rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation.
Og Mandino
#11. Green grass grows where dry desert ends.
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#12. 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.
Og Mandino
#13. I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
Og Mandino
#14. 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.
Og Mandino
#15. I will work when failures seek rest.
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#16. I would rather try to succeed and fail than try to do nothing and succeed.
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#17. Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.
Og Mandino
#18. Within me burns a flame which has been passed from generations uncounted and its heat is a constant irritation to my spirit to become better than I am, and I will.
Og Mandino
#20. 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.
Og Mandino
#21. Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity.
Og Mandino
#22. The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.
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#23. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.
Og Mandino
#24. There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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#25. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs. Is
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#26. Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
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#27. Failure will never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough.
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#28. 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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#29. You merely picture in your mind having already accomplished or attained your goal, whatever it may be. Hold it firmly in your thoughts, picture it as already being yours, and amazing things will happen.
Og Mandino
#30. Action will destroy your procrastination.
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#31. Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
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#32. 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.
Og Mandino
#33. 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.
Og Mandino
#34. 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.
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#35. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
Og Mandino
#36. Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to
ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino
#37. 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.
Og Mandino
#38. We are held back by too much caution. We are timid about venturing. We are not bold enough. And so we die before we reach middle age, although we will not be lowered into the ground until we pass three score and ten.
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#39. Let others build a cave with their clay. I will build a castle with mine.
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#40. 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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#41. If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life.
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#42. Only a habit can subdue another habit.
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#43. I will consider each day's effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak.
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#44. If I persist long enough I will win.
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#45. 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.'
Og Mandino
#46. All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath
so what does that make today worth?
Og Mandino
#47. I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino
#48. The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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#49. Always let your reach exceed your grasp.
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#50. I will form good habits and become their slaves.
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#51. Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. 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.
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#55. I am the end product of thousands of years of evolution; therefore, I am better equipped in both mind and body than all the emperors and wise men who preceded me.
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#56. Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
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#57. To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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#58. You will move in the direction you are facing.
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#59. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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#60. when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.
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#61. Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.
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#62. 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.
Og Mandino
#63. You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.
Og Mandino
#64. 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.
Og Mandino
#65. Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Og Mandino
#66. Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.
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#67. 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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#68. Laugh at yourself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.
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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. 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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#73. most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.
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#74. Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.
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#75. Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.
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#76. If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed!
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#77. I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.
Og Mandino
#78. Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
Og Mandino
#80. You can't conquer reality by running away from it.
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#81. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.
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#82. Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.
Og Mandino
#83. 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.
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#84. 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.
Og Mandino
#85. 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.
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#86. 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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#87. 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.
Og Mandino
#88. 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.
Og Mandino
#89. 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.
Og Mandino
#90. 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?
Og Mandino
#91. The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.
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#93. Son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be
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#95. A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
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#96. 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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#97. In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.
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#98. Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be
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#99. I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why should the miracle that produced me end with my brith? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?
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#100. Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.
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