Og Mandino Quotes

While I have read many inspirational authors, Og Mandino is the one who touched me the most. A lot of his work is written in story form and leaves you with messages and thoughts to think about. He touched my life and gave me inspiration when I was going through a very difficult time. His books are ones that I keep and reread. No matter how many times I reread one of his books, I always put it down with new thoughts to reflect on my own life.

Thousands of people from all walks of life have openly credited Og Mandino with turning their lives around. His books have sold more than 25 million copies in 18 languages.

Og Mandino was a U. S. pilot during World War II, and after the war he worked as a magazine editor. In 1968 he published The Greatest Salesman in the World, a parable with common sense advice on how to succeed in life. The book was a success and Mandino became one of the most popular motivational speakers in the U. S. He went on to write other self-help books, including The Greatest Secret in the World, A Better Way to Live, and The Return of the Ragpicker. He left a great legacy in the form of his books for many generations to follow to enjoy! More books by Og Mandino

Og Mandino quotes:

"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.
Be a self starter.
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.
Don't waste it with a false start of no start at all.
You were not born to fail."
Og Mandino, SUBMITTED BY Rajani

"There is no better than adversity. 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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"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
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"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."
Og Mandino

"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire 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. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces."
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"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."
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"Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck."
Og Mandino

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
Og Mandino

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

"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
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"For now you know one of the greatest principles of success; if you persist long enough you will win."
Og Mandino

"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."
Og Mandino

"Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return."
Og Mandino

"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. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. 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. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!"
Og Mandino

"The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
Og Mandino

"Always strive to make the next hour better than this one."
Og Mandino

"Cultivate the habit of laughter."
Og Mandino

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

"I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts."
Og Mandino

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

"Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious."
Og Mandino

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

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

"To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as...to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead."
Og Mandino

"The only people who never fail are those who never try."
Og Mandino