Quotes from Og Mandino

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.

Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.

You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Today.....I begin a new life".

Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.