If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
OG MANDINOYou will move in the direction you are facing.
More Og Mandino Quotes
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You can’t conquer reality by running away from it.
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Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.
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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.
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Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.
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Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
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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.
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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.
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Realize how good you really are.
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Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
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Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
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I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
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Never settle for the crumbs of life.
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I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.
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Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
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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.
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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.
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