Og Mandino Quotes

I will remember the ancient law of averages and I will bend it to my good. I will persist with knowledge that each failure to sell will increase my chance for success at the next attempt. Each nay I hear will bring me closer to the sound of yea. Each frown I meet only prepares me for the smile to come. Each misfortune I encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck. I must have the night to appreciate the day. I must fail often to succeed only once.

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

I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.

And how will I accomplish this? First I will set goals for the day, the week, the month, the year, and my life. Just as the rain must fall before the wheat will crack its shell and sprout, so must I have objectives before my life will crystallize. In setting my goals I will consider my best performance of the past and multiply it a hundredfold. This will be the standard by which I will live in the future. Never will I be of concern that my goals are too high for is it not better to aim my spear at the moon and strike only an eagle than to aim my spear at the eagle and strike only a rock? Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.

We are held back by too much caution. We are timid about venturing. We are not bold enough. And so we die before we reach middle age, although we will not be lowered into the ground until we pass three score and ten.

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.

Orang yang selalu menunda-nunda niatnya tidak akan mencapai apa-apa.
Bertindak memang ada bahayanya, tetapi bila kita duduk saja menunggu rezeki nomplok, yang akan datang adalah kegagalan.
Kesampingkan saja keragu-raguan anda dan maju terus.!

let your heart be the light that guides your day and the experience that guides your night. see any bad situation as an experience, and you'll find it very easy to overcome any obstacle.

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.

Within me burns a flame which has been passed from generations uncounted and its heat is a constant irritation to my spirit to become better than I am, and I will.

Setting goals is easy. As with New Year’s resolutions, any of us can jot down long lists of things we hope to accomplish in the future . . . but then we continue to live exactly as we have in the past.

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

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

Reynolds wrote that our mind was only barren soil, soon exhausted and unproductive unless it was continually fertilized with new ideas.

I will act now. Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which earned so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action alone is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my dreams, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success. I will act now.