Quotes by Og Mandino

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

“You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day / not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you wont have to drag todays undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal / to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.”

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

“You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.”

“One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of ones ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.”

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

“Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.”

“Take charge of your attitude. Dont let someone else choose it for you.”

“Do all things with love.”

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.

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.

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.

Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible.All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

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.

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again

I will form good habits and become their slave.

when ones avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.

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

They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.