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Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)

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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.: Og Mandino
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.: Og Mandino
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Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.: Og Mandino
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
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.: Og Mandino
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.: Og Mandino
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.: 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. 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.: Og Mandino
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.: Og Mandino
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
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.: Og Mandino
It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.: Og Mandino
Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.: Og Mandino
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. 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. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!: Og Mandino
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.: Og Mandino
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.: Og Mandino
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.: Og Mandino
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.: Og Mandino
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.: Og Mandino
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

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