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.
OG MANDINOWith 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.
More Og Mandino Quotes
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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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Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
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You will move in the direction you are facing.
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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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Use wisely your power of choice.
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So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
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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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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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Do all things with love.
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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 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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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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In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.
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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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Realize how good you really are.
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