Og Mandino Quotes (38 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 9 : The Scroll Marked II, p. 59.
Context: Henceforth I will look upon all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness because it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness because it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards because they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles because they are my challenge.
I will greet this day with love in my heart.

“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.”

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“Henceforth I will look upon all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.”

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Og Mandino Quotes

“Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.”

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“I will persist until I succeed.
I was not deIivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd.”

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Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 10 : The Scroll Marked III, p. 64.

“I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low.”

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Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 15 : The Scroll Marked VIII, p. 91.
Context: I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

“I will act now.
For now is all I have.”

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Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 16 : The Scroll Marked IX, p. 96.
Context: I will act now.
For now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the evil become good. I am not evil. Tomorrow is the day when the weak become strong. I am not weak. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure.
I will act now.

“Always I will take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.
I will persist until I succeed.”

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Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 10 : The Scroll Marked III, p. 65.

“I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.”

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Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 16 : The Scroll Marked IX, p. 94.
Context: 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 and yet depend upon the charity of a flower for life. I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.

“I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun.”

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“Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”

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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. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”

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Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (2001): 2001 Gift Edition

“A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.”

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“Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.”

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“Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.”

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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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Variant: Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.”

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“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to
ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

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“Treasure the friendship you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.”

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“Only a habit can subdue another habit.”

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“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”

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“I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.”

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“Action alone is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my dreams, my plans, my goals, into a living force.”

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Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 16 : The Scroll Marked IX, p. 93.
Context: I will act now. Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which 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 earned 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 dreams, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success.
I will act now.

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

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“Today….. I begin a new life".”

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

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Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 14 : The Scroll Marked VII, p. 86.

“I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind infects me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows.”

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Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 10 : The Scroll Marked III, p. 66.

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

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