Og Mandino Inspirational Quotations

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 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.

Each problem has a positive side.

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

I will walk where failures fear to walk.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

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

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.

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

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.

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

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

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

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.

I will work when failures seek rest.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

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

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

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.

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.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

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

I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepperd. I am lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

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

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

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.

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.