Og Mandino Quotes

200 Og Mandino Quotes

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I will walk talk among men, and they will know me not, for today I am a new man, with a new life.
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I will greet this day with love in my heart.
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Muscle can split a shield and even destroy life but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of men and until I master this art I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace.
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Just as love is my weapon to open the hearts of men, love is also my shield to repulse the arrows of hate and the spears of anger.
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I will greet this day with love, and I will succeed.
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I will persist until I succeed.
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If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed.
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The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
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The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning…
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I will consider each day’s effort as but one blow of my blade against a might oak. The first blow may cause not a tremor in the wood, nor the second, nor the third. Each blow, of itself, may be trifling, and seem of no consequence. Yet from childish swipes the oak will eventually tumble. So it will be with my efforts of today.
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I will try, try and try again. Each obstacle I will consider as a mere detour to my goal and a challenge to my profession.
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If I persist long enough I will win. I will persist. I will win.
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I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why should the miracle which produced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?
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Nature knows not defeat. Eventually, she emerges victorious and so will I, and with each victory the next struggle becomes less difficult.
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I will live each day as if it is my last.
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Can sand flow upward in the hourglass? No. Yesterday is buried forever and I will think of it no more.
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I have but one life and life is naught but a measurement of time. When I waste one I destroy the other.
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Procrastination I will destroy with action.
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Today I will be master of my emotions.
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All nature is a circle of moods and I am a part of nature and so, like the tides, my moods will rise; my moods will fall.
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If I feel incompetent I will remember my past success.
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If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
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If I feel my skill is unmatched I will look at the stars.
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I will laugh at the world.
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No living creature can laugh except man. Trees may bleed when they are wounded and beasts in the field will cry in pain and hunger, yet only I have the gift of laughter and it is mine to use whenever I choose. I will cultivate the habit of laughter.
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These words, passed down from the ancients, will carry me through every adversity and maintain my life in balance. These four words are: This too shall pass.
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Only with laughter and happiness can I enjoy the fruits of my labour.
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Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
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A mulberry leaf touched with the genius of man becomes silk.
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A field of clay touched with the genius of man becomes a castle.
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A cyprus tree touched with the genius of man becomes a shrine.
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Never will I be of concern that my goals are too high for is it not better to aim my spear at the moon and strike only an eagle than to aim my spear at the eagle and strike only a rock?
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My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action. I will act now.
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Now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labour of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the evil become good. I am not evil. Tomorrow is the day when the weak become strong. I am not weak. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure.
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Discipline me in the habit of trying and trying again; yet show me the way to make us of the law of averages. Favour me with alertness to recognise opportunity; yet endow me with patience which will concentrate my strength.
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Success is one of the most difficult words in the English language to define. To you it may mean fame and personal power, to another it may be the acquisition of a million dollars, to many it is a happy home filled to capacity with love.
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Many ideas grow better when they are transplanted to another mind.
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All of us are beset by fairs and pain and doubts. We let ourselves get turned away from our goals by obstructions. But it is possible, as Marie Curie once reminded us, to change our world so that nothing in life is to be feared, only understood.
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Five hundred years from now people will be writing about you. What they don’t know they will invent. Why not give them authentic material?
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