"I am here for a purpose and that……" — Og Mandino
"I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand."
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201 Quotes by Og Mandino
Og Mandino has 201 quotes on this site.
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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.
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Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great…
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Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without…
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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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I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable,…
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My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I…
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The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given…
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I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in…
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I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality…
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I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I…
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And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm…
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More Grain Quotes
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of…
— Lord Acton
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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
— Hosea Ballou
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms…
— William Blake
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections,…
— William Jennings Bryan
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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings…
— F. F. Bruce
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal…
— Michel de Montaigne
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His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe…
— Stephen King
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But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with…
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born…
— Robert R. McCammon
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no…
— Henri Poincare
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