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 MANDINONever feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
More Og Mandino Quotes
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Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.
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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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Success and rest don’t sleep together.
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A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
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Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them as you make the effort.
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
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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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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 can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.
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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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Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
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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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I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.
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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.
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