Og Mandino Quotes

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 matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Mr. Og. Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they’ve lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They’ve settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. There are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each performed the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead… And in those books are the simple secrets, techniques, and methods which they can still apply to their own lives to become anything they wish to be and to attain all the true riches of life.

The Scroll Marked X

For he is not poor who has little; only he that desires much … and true security lies not in the things one has but in the things one can do without.

Today I shall give myself in sacrifice and work; for tomorrow I will have nothing to give and there will be none to receive.

Surprise everyone. Change your work habits. Go the extra mile!

feelings … moods and … emotions will follow action. If you want to be enthusiastic … act enthusiastically. Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Mecbur kalırsanız,onurlu bir yoksulluk hayatı yaşamayı öğrenin,altınlarınızı mezara götürmek yerine dha önemli meselelere bakın.

Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not, for today I am a new man, with a new life.

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.

Um dos preços mais elevados que estamos a pagar pelo nosso dito estilo de vida moderno nos últimos cinquenta anos é tornarmo-nos cada vez mais parecidos uns com os outros. Todos nós suportamos os mesmos programas de televisão, lemos as mesmas revistas, usamos o mesmo vestuário e compramos a mesma comida congelada. Todos vivemos e morremos ao compasso do relógio, matamo-nos prematuramente uns aos outros em automóveis semelhantes, perdemos a noite num jogo de futebol ou no escritório, nunca parecemos ter muito tempo para os nossos cônjuges e filhos, olhamos impotentes enquanto os nossos oceanos e lagos são envenenados e tentamos não pensar numa bomba de hidrogénio a aterrar em qualquer lugar próximo da nossa cidade ou vila.

Conforme os anos passam, acertamos todos o passo para marcharmos ao toque do mesmo tambor, correndo para a frente ou para trás ao mesmo ritmo que todos os outros, praticamente sorrindo a uma ordem - seres produzidos em massa com tanta personalidade como qualquer dos milhões de bolachas de água e sal que saem diariamente dos fornos da Nabisco.

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.

I am a unique creature of nature. I am rare and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable

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 shepherd. I am a 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.

To have a happy family...is to enjoy an earlier heaven.