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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Og Mandino

So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.
OG MANDINO

Laugh Myself Poor
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.
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Carry Fortune Goodness
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.
OG MANDINO

Growth Myself Purpose
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.
OG MANDINO

Ability Achievement Discover Greatness Joy Oneself
I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.
OG MANDINO

Failure Myself Persistence Success
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
What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
OG MANDINO

Dream Failure Inspirational Life Past Yourself
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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Difference Failure Habit Inspirational Success Truth
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.
OG MANDINO

Decision Defeat Depression Laughter Life Pain Perspective Serious Yourself
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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Blessing Break Confidence Courage Life Music Play Smile Strength Sun Value Yourself
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.
OG MANDINO

Action Inspirational Success Yourself
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.
OG MANDINO

Laugh Man Myself Serious World
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
OG MANDINO

Hard Time See Success
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.
OG MANDINO

Change End Life Mistake Myself Personality
Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Shame
A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
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Gift Myself Power Smile
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
OG MANDINO

Failure Success Yourself
I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
OG MANDINO

Force Greatness Love Myself Weapon
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath so what does that make today worth?
OG MANDINO

Breathe Death Money World Worth
Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.
OG MANDINO

Inspirational Start Wasted Time
True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.
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Deep Oneself Security True
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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Determination Enough Failure Myself Strong Success
Never settle for the crumbs of life.
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Inspirational Life One Liner
If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
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Choice Goodness Habit Myself Slave
I am not a human being, I am a human becoming.
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Growth Human Myself
Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.
OG MANDINO

Beginning Human Self Love Walk Worth Yourself
True happiness lies within you.
OG MANDINO

Happiness True Yourself

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

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