Og Mandino famous quotes

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

#Happiness #Uplifting #Peace

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

#Wisdom #Adversity #Triumph

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational #Positive #Stars

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
-- Og Mandino

#Life #Children #Hate

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
-- Og Mandino

#Being Strong #Encouraging #Encouragement

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational #Failure #Adversity

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational #Attitude #Teaching

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.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. 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. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.
-- Og Mandino

#Positive #Good Morning #Success

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

#Responsibility #Cutting #Thinking

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.
-- Og Mandino

#Stars #Adversity #May

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

#Echoes #Today #Firsts

Do all things with love.
-- Og Mandino

#Love #Inspirational Love #Unconditional Love

Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational #Moving On #Today

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational #Motivational #Courage

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. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
-- Og Mandino

#Love #Life #Happiness

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

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

#Life #Fall #Giving

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational #Gratitude #Appreciation

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

#Effort #Tasks #Energy

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

#Basketball #Hate #Selfishness

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Mind

Always let your reach exceed your grasp.
-- Og Mandino

#Thrive

Green grass grows where dry desert ends.
-- Og Mandino

#Desert #Dry #Green

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
-- Og Mandino

#Motivational #Yesterday #Today

You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational #Routine #Hours

I am natures greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me. I am a unique creature.
-- Og Mandino

#Moving #Heart #Eye

I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
-- Og Mandino

#Sadness #Heart #Grieving

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

#Inspirational #Winning #Long

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

#Struggle #Victory #Defeat

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.
-- Og Mandino

#Sadness #Thinking #Perspective

I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man.
-- Og Mandino

#Heart #Men #Secret

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
-- Og Mandino

#Smile #Being Happy #Giving

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
-- Og Mandino

#Change #Real #Night

I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepperd. I am lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational #Motivational #Sleep

The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement
-- Og Mandino

#Achievement #Miracle #Tasks

Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
-- Og Mandino

#Character #Self #Over You

Action will destroy your procrastination.
-- Og Mandino

#Self Esteem #Procrastination #Action

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

#Good Luck #Encounters #Tomorrow

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

#Action

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

#Trying #Succeed #Persist

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
-- Og Mandino

#Opportunity #Swim #Hook

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
-- Og Mandino

#Destiny #Slaughterhouses #My Destiny

I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.
-- Og Mandino

#Greatness #Vocabulary #Phrases

Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
-- Og Mandino

#Family #Children #Eye

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

#Next #Hours #Strive

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

#Effort #Pay #Attention

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.
-- Og Mandino

#Lying #Differences #Habit

You will move in the direction you are facing.
-- Og Mandino

#Moving

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.
-- Og Mandino

#Success #Exercise #Secret

For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The first day is yesterday with all its blunders and tears, follies and defeats. Yesterday has passed away, beyond my control forever. The other day is tomorrow with all its pitfalls and threats, its dangers and mystery. Until the sun rises again I have no stake in tomorrow, for it is still unborn.
-- Og Mandino

#Two #Yesterday #Forever

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?
-- Og Mandino

#Heart #Yesterday #Mourning

First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd as they wander aimlessly, bleating and whining, all of their days. Separate yourself now from the multitude of humanity so that you will be able to control your own destiny. Remember that what others think and say and do need never influence what you think and say and do.
-- Og Mandino

#Destiny #Thinking #Sheep

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

#Eye #Opportunity #Thinking

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

#Personality #Want #Fault Finding

Each problem has a positive side.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational #Sides #Problem

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
-- Og Mandino

#Self Improvement #Disease #Complaining

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

#Joy #Wealth

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world
-- Og Mandino

#Goal #World #This World

Realize how good you really are.
-- Og Mandino

#Realizing

Cherish each hour of this day for it can NEVER return.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspiration #Return #Cherish

I will persist until I succeed!
-- Og Mandino

#Bodybuilding #Succeed #Persist

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.
-- Og Mandino

#Dream #Inspiration #Goal

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!
-- Og Mandino

#Dream #Inspiration #Heart

I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.
-- Og Mandino

#Famous Inspirational #Steps #Persist

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

#Hurt #Heart #Finding Happiness

I will laugh at the world! Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that I forget how to laugh at myself and my world.And so long as I can Laugh never will I be poor
-- Og Mandino

#Wise #Powerful #Laughing

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.
-- Og Mandino

#Motivation #Inspiration #Goal

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

#Faith #Littles #Moments

A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
-- Og Mandino

#Smile #Kingdoms #Vanquish

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

#Inspirational #Fool #Calendars

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

#Home #Events #New Home

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

#Dream #Dust #Goal

Only a habit can subdue another habit.
-- Og Mandino

#Habit

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
-- Og Mandino

#Action #Resolution #Deals

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.
-- Og Mandino

#Flower #Butterfly #Firefly

I will greet this day with love in my heart.
-- Og Mandino

#Heart #Happy Monday #My Heart

No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
-- Og Mandino

#Son #Serenity #Mind

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

#Dream #Sorry #Self Esteem

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
-- Og Mandino

#Success #Character #Power

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

#Strong #Action #Weak

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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

#Failure #Trying #Shame

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

#Motivational #Art #Life And Love

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

#Secret #Rate #Secret To Success

How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.
-- Og Mandino

#Sad #Past #Thinking

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.
-- Og Mandino

#Pain #Self #Laughing

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

#Life #Thinking #Seize The Day

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

#Motivational #Perseverance #Succeed

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
-- Og Mandino

#Grace #Sugar #Manners

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational #Real #Night

So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist.
-- Og Mandino

#Long #Persist

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

#Inspirational #Encouragement #Life Changing

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational #Motivational #Parenting

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational #Waiting #Forever

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.
-- Og Mandino

#Positive #Pain #Attitude

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
-- Og Mandino

#Love #Inspirational #Life

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
-- Og Mandino

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success

Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.
-- Og Mandino

#Long #Skins #Vineyards