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 MANDINOIf I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
More Og Mandino Quotes
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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.
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Do all things with love.
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Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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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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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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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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You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.
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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.
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You will move in the direction you are facing.
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Realize how good you really are.
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My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay.
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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.
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True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.
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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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You can’t conquer reality by running away from it.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.
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Cherish each hour of this day for it can NEVER return.
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I am not a human being, I am a human becoming.
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Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.
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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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