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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.

Og Mandino

Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them as you make the effort.
OG MANDINO

Attention Effort Learning Pay Yourself
So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.
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Laugh Myself Poor
With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.
OG MANDINO

Achievement Break Dream Goal Strategy
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
OG MANDINO

Failure Success Yourself
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

Challenge Endurance Happiness Heart Myself
Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.
OG MANDINO

Inspirational Limitation Mindset Yourself
Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
OG MANDINO

Failure Feeling Inspirational Shame
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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Achievement Dream Endurance Goal Habit Success Victory Win Yourself
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

Beginning Care Death Kindness Life Reward Understand Yourself
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath so what does that make today worth?
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Breathe Death Money World Worth
You can’t conquer reality by running away from it.
OG MANDINO

Inspirational Reality Run Yourself
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

Forget Important Laugh Myself Poor Powerful Wisdom World
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.
OG MANDINO

Carry Fortune Goodness
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
OG MANDINO

Attitude Character Learning Student
Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.
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Inspirational Start Wasted Time
Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
OG MANDINO

Character Control Deep Force Himself Strong Thinking Weakness

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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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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