Og Mandino Quotes

I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why should the miracle that produced me end with my brith? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today? ~ Og Mandino

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. ~ Og Mandino

So many of us think ourselves into smallness, into inferiority, by thinking downward. We are held back by too much caution. We are timid about venturing. We are not bold enough ... Struck down by our own caution, our own lack of faith in ourselves and our abilities. Opportunities? There were many. But always there was risk. Do we dare? We vacillate. Time hurries by. Opportunity gone. We anguish. The years roll on. Finally, we convince ourselves that it's too late and settle for cheap imitations of life. ~ Og Mandino

We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves. ~ Og Mandino

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

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

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

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

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

GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD ~ Og Mandino

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

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead ... ~ Og Mandino

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

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance. ~ 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 prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner. ~ Og Mandino

There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day. ~ Og Mandino

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

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

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

When we were given dominion over the world, we were also given dominion over ourselves. God is not our navigator. It was never His intention to chart a course for each of us and thus place us all under His bondage. Instead, He bestowed each of us with intellect and talent and vision to map our own way, to write our own Book of Life in any manner we choose. ~ Og Mandino

For when an act becomes easy through constant repetition it becomes a pleasure to perform and if it is a pleasure to perform it is man's nature to perform it often. When I perform it often it becomes a habit and I become its slave and since it is a good habit this is my will. Today I begin a new life. ~ Og Mandino

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. ~ 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

Prayer to an Unseen Friend ~ 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

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

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

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

Writing, I am convinced, is the least appreciated of all the creative arts. Only a miniscule portion of the population engages in sculpting or painting or composing but everyone writes - whether it be letters, invitations, shopping lists...It is not far-fetched, therefore, for anyone with a smattering of self-esteem to believe that if he or she had the time, and the desire, an acceptable book or article could be produced. ~ 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

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

I will persist until I succeed! ~ Og Mandino

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

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

Success and rest don't sleep together. ~ 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

You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining. ~ Og Mandino

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

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

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

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

I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day. ~ Og Mandino

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

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

Do all things with love. ~ Og Mandino

Work is not your enemy but your friend. How you work, not what you do, determines the course of your life. You may work grudgingly or you may work gratefully; you may work as a human or you may work as a robot. There is no work so rude that you may not exalt in it; no work so demeaning that you cannot breathe soul into it; no work so dull that you may not enliven it. ~ Og Mandino

Sooner or later all mankind will realize that the greatest cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrow and crimes of humanity rests solely in acts of love. Love is the greatest gift from God. It is the divine spark that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, love gives us the power to work miracles with your own life and those we touch. ~ Og Mandino

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

Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts. ~ Og Mandino

Use wisely your power of choice. ~ Og Mandino

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

I will live this day as if it is my last. ... I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday's misfortunes, Yesterday's defeats, yesterday's aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?
I will live this day as if it is my last. This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death. I lift mine arms with thanks for this priceless gift of a new day. So too, I will beat upon my heart with gratitude as I consider all who greeted yesterday's sunrise who are no longer with the living today. I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be? ~ 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

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

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

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

I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. ~ 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

Each problem has a positive side. ~ Og Mandino

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. ~ Og Mandino

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

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

Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.
Never, until the end of time, will there be another such as you.
You have shown no knowledge or appreciation of your uniqueness.
Yet, you are the rarest thing in the world. ~ 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

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

Always let your reach exceed your grasp. ~ Og Mandino

Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them. ~ Og Mandino

What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be. ~ Og Mandino

Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse. ~ Og Mandino

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

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

Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things. ~ 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

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

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

True happiness lies within you. ~ Og Mandino

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

About 90 percent of the things in our lives are right, and about 10 percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 90 percent that are right, and ignore the 10 percent that are wrong. If we want to be worried and bitter and have stomach ulcers, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 10 percent that are wrong and ignore the 90 percent that are glorious. The words Think and Thank ~ Og Mandino

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is - I will form good habits and become their slave. ~ 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

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

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others. ~ 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

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 challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles. ~ Og Mandino

I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise. ~ Og Mandino

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino ~ Tom Walsh

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

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

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