Og Mandino Quotes - Page 6

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

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

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

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

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

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.

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.

If I persist long enough I will win.

Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.

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.

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.

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

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

Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.

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.

Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.

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

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

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.

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?