Og Mandino Quotes

200 Og Mandino Quotes

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Among the greatest of human tragedies are the wasted lives of those who fail, after enjoying success, and lose their desire to ever try again.
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When you become caught up in the heady pursuit of success you always run the risk of losing far more than you gain unless you are careful.
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You, scanning these words, are living proof that one need not stop learning, or growing, after some predetermined youthful age.
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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.
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I am convinced, that life is just a game, here on Earth, a game where no one need be a loser, no matter what his plight or condition may be. I believe that everyone can enjoy the fruits of victory but I am equally as certain that, like all other games, one cannot participate in this mysterious act of living with any hope of satisfaction unless one understands a few simple rules.
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This is the day you begin to turn your life around.
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Forget yesterday and last month and last year, with their gloomy diary of failures and disappointments. All that is in the past.
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Within each of us, the pilot light of hope never dies.
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The vast majority of us have absolutely no idea how to begin to make our dreams come true.
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You will be taught by the men and women whose messages have withstood the tests of time and practicality and whose principles work.
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All that is required of you, ….is … a burning desire to make something more of your life.
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History is filled with stories of individuals who dated a new era in their lives from the reading of a single book.
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Are you ready to take that first step toward a better life?
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How sad that most of us know more about how and why our automobile functions than we know about ourselves.
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The business you are in, the business we are all in, is the business of living….
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The greatest failure of our times is success since we have come more and more to equate success solely with material possessions.
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Was Howard Hughes any happier or more at peace with himself when he doubled his first million dollars?
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That’s why you’re here, aren’t you? To learn about yourself. To cure yourself of failure.
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Most of us unfortunately are unable to capitalise on our abilities. We overestimate them; we underestimate them; we become complacent; we allow them to decay. Occasionally we are unaware that they exist.
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‘Safety’ and ‘security’ have become ideals, in this world of future shock, almost completely submerging our desire for growth. And yet we must grow, we must be willing to take risk, we must be willing to take advantage of the ninety percent of our potential that …. we never use.
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Your only limitations are those you set up in your own mind, or permit others to set up for you!
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Nothing in life worth achieving is easy.
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The truth of the matter is that your plane lifted off the runway and you were still standing at the boarding gate.
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Make your own opportunities!
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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
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You cannot rise above the level of your vision. The man who guides a pushcart through the alley to pick up bottles and stray bits of paper will remain between the shafts of his rickety card at long as he believes that he has no talent for anything else.
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Success… is probably right under your nose.
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You are literally what you think and your character is the complete sum of all your thoughts.
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What you are thinking now, and tomorrow, and next month, is what you will eventually become.
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What is it that you truly seek from life?
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Success, love, happiness, contentment, wealth … if these are the things you want… their roots all grow from seeds of thought, seeds that only you can plant now…
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Understand how to tackle your life situations healthfully, without allowing prejudice against yourself to eat its way into your mind.
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They [Successful people] were able to picture themselves, vividly, having already attained their goals and they retained that image in their minds constantly, assuring themselves again and again that they knew they would succeed.
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People don’t change when they feel good. They change when they’re fed up.
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What’s the difference between the person who perseveres and the person who quits? Enthusiasm!
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Success and procrastination are absolutely incompatible.
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There are no limitations to your mind except those you acknowledge…
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You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and encouragement from others.
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You have only one life to live.
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