Og Mandino Quotes

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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.
• Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
• 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…
• 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…
• All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?
• 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;…
• My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation…
• The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how…
• I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was…
• 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…
• I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a…
• Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools.
• Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
• Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.
• The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
• 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…

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