Top 224 Quotes & Sayings by Og Mandino - Page 3

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.

No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.

True happiness lies within you.

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.

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

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.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve.

Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Each problem has a positive side.

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

Cherish each hour of this day for it can NEVER return.

Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd as they wander aimlessly, bleating and whining, all of their days. Separate yourself now from the multitude of humanity so that you will be able to control your own destiny. Remember that what others think and say and do need never influence what you think and say and do.

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.

My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror.... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.

Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.

Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is - I will form good habits and become their slave.

Today.....I begin a new life".

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.

He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?

I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.

Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple

Failure is... the highway to success.

Never will I pray for the material things of the world. I am not calling to a servant to bring me food. I am not ordering an innkeeper to provide me with room. Never will I seek delivery of gold, love, good health, petty victories, fame, success, or happiness. Only for guidance will I pray, that I may be shown the way to acquire these things, and my prayer will always be answered.

No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world

I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?

I will walk where failures fear to walk.

I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?

You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

I will persist until I succeed!