Og Mandino
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.Collection: Power
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.Collection: Success
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.Collection: Motivational
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.Collection: Future
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.Collection: Motivational
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.Collection: Love
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.Collection: Wisdom
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.Collection: Inspirational
Do all things with love.Collection: Love
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.Collection: Motivational
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.Collection: Attitude
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.Collection: Home
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.Collection: Success
It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.Collection: Great
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!Collection: Work
I am rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable.
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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.
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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.
The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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.
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.
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Collection: Happiness
Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.Collection: Inspirational
I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.Collection: Love
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.Collection: Inspirational
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. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.Collection: Life
Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Positive
Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.Collection: Effort
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?Collection: Life
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.Collection: Miracle
Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.Collection: Gossip
Always let your reach exceed your grasp.Collection: Thrive
You can't conquer reality by running away from it.Collection: Running
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.Collection: Success
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.Collection: Motivational
How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.Collection: Sad
True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.Collection: Lying
Only a habit can subdue another habit.Collection: Habit
Always strive to make the next hour better than this one.Collection: Next
I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.Collection: Eye
I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.Collection: Succeed
We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves.Collection: Self Esteem
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.Collection: Inspirational
If I persist long enough I will win.Collection: Bad Day