Quotes from Og Mandino

The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

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

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

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

One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.

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

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

Success and rest don't sleep together.

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

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

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

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

I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

... 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.

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 or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

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.

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

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