Top 224 Quotes & Sayings by Og Mandino - Page 4

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.

Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action, alone, is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success. I will act now.

I will work when failures seek rest.

The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence for all who hear me that they have it in their own power to make their lives as glorious or as terrible as they choose.

The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.

Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.

Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.

The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement

If I persist long enough I will win.

Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.

You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.

Today I will be the master of my emotions.

There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.

Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.

Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

Why do we continue to breed little minds who can find no recompense for their own failures other than to belittle and mock the talents, even the dress, of others? When will everyone realize that we are all equal in the eyes of God?

In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.

The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.

... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be

Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Wealth, position, fame, and even elusive happiness will be mine, eventually, if I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those who reach the top are the ones who are not content with.

Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools.

So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist.

So long as there is breath in me, I will persist.

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles

I will live this day as if it is my last

I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

Cultivate the habit of laughter.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.