Success and rest don’t sleep together.
OG MANDINOMy 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.
More Og Mandino Quotes
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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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True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.
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The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.
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Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
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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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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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You can’t conquer reality by running away from it.
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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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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one’s ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.
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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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Use wisely your power of choice.
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Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.
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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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