Alfsen Og Quotes

To have a happy family...is to enjoy an earlier heaven. ~ Og Mandino

when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward. ~ Og Mandino

to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all. ~ Og Mandino

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

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. ~ Og Mandino

Failure is ... the highway to success. ~ Og Mandino

each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better ~ Og Mandino

Failure will never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough. ~ Og Mandino

Today.....I begin a new life". ~ Og Mandino

Therefore, each hour of this day will I cherish for it can never return. ~ Og Mandino

Prayer to an Unseen Friend ~ Og Mandino

GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD ~ Og Mandino

Treasure the friendship you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. ~ Og Mandino

Experience is comparable to fashion; an action that proved successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow. Only principles endure ~ Og Mandino

Son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be ~ Og Mandino

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. ~ Og Mandino

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ~ Og Mandino

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others. ~ Og Mandino

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure. ~ Og Mandino

I will walk where failures fear to walk. ~ Og Mandino

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late. ~ Og Mandino

God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve. ~ Og Mandino

Each problem has a positive side. ~ Og Mandino

Act now, for now is all you have. ~ Og Mandino

most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound. ~ Og Mandino

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness. ~ Og Mandino

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny. ~ Og Mandino

Always strive to make the next hour better than this one. ~ Og Mandino

Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple ~ Og Mandino

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. ~ Og Mandino

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time. ~ Og Mandino

If I persist long enough I will win. ~ Og Mandino

Do all things with love. ~ Og Mandino

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today. ~ Og Mandino

Competition will always place your life in the hands of others, while initiative gives you the freedom to choose your own destiny ... ~ Og Mandino

Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God? ~ Og Mandino

True happiness lies within you. ~ Og Mandino

You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others. ~ Og Mandino

Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life. ~ Og Mandino

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle. ~ Og Mandino

The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. ~ Og Mandino

Success and rest don't sleep together. ~ Og Mandino

Always let your reach exceed your grasp. ~ 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

Let others build a cave with their clay. I will build a castle with mine. ~ Og Mandino

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope. ~ Og Mandino

usually sees only at Christmas. At last he reached in and tenderly removed his gift of glass from the carton. "A geranium! I cannot believe it. A pelargonium ~ Og Mandino

I will form good habits and become their slaves. ~ Og Mandino

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste. ~ Og Mandino

If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are. ~ Og Mandino

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live. ~ Og Mandino

Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. ~ Og Mandino

Manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. ~ Og Mandino

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

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. ~ Og Mandino

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool. ~ Og Mandino

A new book is very much like a child. Sooner or later it must go out into the world and succeed or fail on its own, usually leaving behind one or two loving people filled with concern and guilt and wondering if they had truly done all they could have to prepare their issue for the cruel marketplace of life. ~ Og Mandino

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt. ~ Og Mandino

Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return. ~ Og Mandino

The rewards are great if one succeeds but the rewards are great only because so few succeed. ~ Og Mandino

Nothing is easier than fault finding. ~ Og Mandino

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools. ~ Og Mandino

And so long as I can laugh never will I be poor. ~ Og Mandino

Today I shall give myself in sacrifice and work; for tomorrow I will have nothing to give and there will be none to receive. ~ Og Mandino

As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men. ~ Og Mandino

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed. ~ Og Mandino

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried. ~ Og Mandino

Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others. ~ Og Mandino

Nothing can bring the hurt of loneliness upon a man so swiftly as to pass a strange house in the dark and witness, in the lamplight from within, a family breaking evening bread together. ~ Og Mandino

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile! ~ Og Mandino

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

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home. ~ Og Mandino

I will persist until I succeed! ~ Og Mandino

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you. ~ Og Mandino

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath
so what does that make today worth? ~ Og Mandino

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win. ~ Og Mandino

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

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

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving. ~ Og Mandino

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult ... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. ~ Og Mandino

Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure. ~ Og Mandino

The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ... and you've got it made. ~ Og Mandino

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. ~ Og Mandino

Use wisely your power of choice. ~ Og Mandino

Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities. ~ Og Mandino

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

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. ~ Og Mandino

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you. ~ Og Mandino

True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without. ~ Og Mandino

I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks. ~ Og Mandino

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools. ~ Og Mandino

Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence. ~ Og Mandino

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth. ~ Og Mandino

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible.
All are of no value unless they are followed by action. ~ 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 achieving your dreams. ~ Og Mandino

Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them ... as you make the effort. ~ Og Mandino

If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits. ~ Og Mandino

My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more. ~ Og Mandino

Success is not something that must be deserved or earned. It is more an inherent right - an inherent responsibility. The only qualification for success is that you be you, that you utilize whatever combination of talent you possess to the fullest extent possible. ~ Og Mandino

If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed! ~ Og Mandino