Og Mandino Quotes

200 Og Mandino Quotes

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To create the olive, king of all trees, a hundred years is required. An onion plant is old in nine weeks. I have lived as an onion plant. It has not pleased me. Now I wouldst become the greatest of olive trees and, in truth, the greatest of salesmen.
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We are not placed on this earth to be little more than walking vegetables.
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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 it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary to you understand and appreciate your past.
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I am likened to a grain of wheat which faces one of three futures. The wheat can be placed in a sack and dumped in a stall until it is fed to swine. Or it can be ground to flour and made into bread. Or it can be placed in the earth and allowed to grow until its golden head divides and produces a thousand grains from the one.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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No one else can live your life for you. No one else can succeed for you! It’s your move.
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.
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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.
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The easiest thing to find on God’s green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not all closed and the doors are not all shut.
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How is it that many individuals, who possess only limited capabilities, manage to attract great admiration for extraordinary results?
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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.
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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct results of your thoughts.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.
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Your life need not be a succession of twenty-four hour vacuums, nor must you live in an emotional dungeon any longer.
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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.
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How much of your talent is being wasted for want of a little boldness?
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The biggest difference between a ‘wisher’ and a ‘doer’ is motivation.
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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set said with no destination.
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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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You possess as much of this precious commodity [time] as the richest person in the world and yet you may not realise how wealthy you are.
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Can there possibly be a system for handling your job in such a manner that you would never have to suffer the ordeal of seeing work pile up on your? [Priorities]
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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.
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When you truly understand this lesson [Law of increasing returns] you will be as close as you can possibly get to a single universal law of success.
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The acquisition of money has always been a simple matter to those who can practice a little discipline and follow a few rules.
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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
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If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
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The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
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Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine’s potential with an overdose of stress.
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If you have always believe that being a highly competitive person is a habit necessary for success, you are in for quite a surprise.
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If you’re waiting for good fortune to smile on you, that first social security check might arrive at your door first.
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There are many ways you can get out of the ruts of boredom and mediocrity before you run out of road.
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As your success grows you will soon discover that there are others who would delight in pulling you down from your perch.
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