"I will commit not the terrible crime of……" — Og Mandino
"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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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 Aiming Quotes
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
— Aristotle
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
— Mary Kay Ash
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.
— Jeff Bridges
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I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming…
— David Byrne
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To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at…
— Sri Aurobindo
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A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the…
— Libby Trickett
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Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by…
— Fred Couples
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Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.
— Charlotte Gray
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The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside…
— Hugo Black
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He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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