Og Mandino Quotes - Page 7

Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.

I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

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

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.

Failure is... the highway to success.

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

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

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.

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

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.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.

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.

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.

Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.

Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.

I will work when failures seek rest.

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

I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.

I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.