Og Mandino
I will laugh at the world! Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that I forget how to laugh at myself and my world.And so long as I can Laugh never will I be poorCollection: Wise
Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.Collection: Today
And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.Collection: Long
Today.....I begin a new life".Collection: New Life
Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.Collection: Heart
The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.Collection: Secret
Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.Collection: Passion
Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.Collection: Fear
Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.Collection: Sadness
The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.Collection: Inspirational
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.Collection: Inspirational
I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.Collection: Happiness
Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.Collection: Joy
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.Collection: Wise
I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.Collection: Destiny
I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.Collection: Crime
I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?Collection: Mind
Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.Collection: Today
You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.Collection: Adversity
A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.Collection: Inspirational
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.Collection: Inspirational
In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.Collection: Motivational
I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Son
I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Character
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.Collection: Congratulations
There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.Collection: Hands
Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.Collection: Children
Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.Collection: Children
Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.Collection: Inspirational
The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.Collection: Work
You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.Collection: Encouragement
I will work when failures seek rest.Collection: Inspirational
I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.Collection: Dust
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Beach
Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.Collection: Wisdom
My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.Collection: Dream
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!Collection: Life
I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man.Collection: Heart
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.Collection: Good Luck
If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.Collection: Slave
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.Collection: Success
I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.Collection: Men
Realize how good you really are.Collection: Realizing
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.Collection: Greatness
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.Collection: Lying
Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.Collection: Keys