Og Mandino Quotes

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

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It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.” Hafid

Nunca me preocuparé de que mis metas sean demasiado elevadas, puesto que, ¿no es mejor acaso apuntar mi lanza a la luna y herir solamente a un águila que apuntar mi lanza al águila y pegarle solamente a una roca?

Yet I know so well from experience that in the final showdown your future is strictly up to you. No book, no lecture, or rabbi, and no motivational tape, can do anything toward altering the way you live unless *you* are determined to pay the price in time and effort and sacrifice and pain. The choice is yours . . . and yours alone.

It will become stronger and more protective with use until one day I will cast it aside and walk unencumbered among all manners of men and, when I do, my name will be raised high on the pyramid of life.

First, I will read the words in silence when I arise. Then, I will read the words in silence after I have partaken of my midday meal. Last, I will read the words again just before I retire at day’s end, and most important, on this occasion I will read the words aloud.

Thất bại là khi con người không có khả năng đạt được những mục tiêutrong cuộc sống, bất kể đó là mục tiêu gì

Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is — I will form good habits and become their slave.

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.

Failure will never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough.

I have operated on dozens and dozens of people to improve deficient features only to find that, after surgery, they replaced this real physical fault in their minds with a nonsensical belief which continued their unswerving fixation on their inferiority. Their negative beliefs varied; their movement toward failure was the same kind of mechanism.

No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important, to acquire peace of mind and serenity.

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.