“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”
— Og Mandino
“Action will destroy your procrastination.”
“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
“I will persist until I succeed!”
“Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.”
“Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.”
“Do all things with love.”
“Success and rest don’t sleep together.”
“If I persist long enough I will win.”
“My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.”
“Use wisely your power of choice.”
“I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.”
“Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.”
“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.”
“If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.”
“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.”
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”
“It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.”
“True happiness lies within you.”
“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.”
“Never settle for the crumbs of life.”
“Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.”
“I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.”
“I will form good habits and become their slaves.”
“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.”
“I will greet this day with love in my heart.”
“I am not a human being, i am a human becoming.”
“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.”
“Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.”
“I will not allow yesterday’s success to lull me into today’s complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.”
“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.”
“Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.”
“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.”
“Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
“Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.”
“Today I will be the master of my emotions.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.”
“Realize how good you really are.”
“I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.”
“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.”
“Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.”
“I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.”
“In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.”
“Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.”
“So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist.”
“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.”
“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.”
“God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can’t solve.”
“What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.”
“Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.”
“You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.”
“All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath – so what does that make today worth?”
“You can’t conquer reality by running away from it.”
“Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.”
“If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed!”
“My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.”
“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.”
“You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.”
“The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.”
“I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.”
“Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find “tomorrow” on the calendars of fools.”
“Each problem has a positive side.”
“Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.”
“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.”
“A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.”
“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.”
“Only a habit can subdue another habit.”
“I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”
“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”
“Green grass grows where dry desert ends.”
“The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.”
“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.”
“I will work when failures seek rest.”
“Act now, for now is all you have.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!”
“Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.”
“You will move in the direction you are facing.”
“Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.”
“Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.”
“I’d rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?”
“Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Don’t let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.”
“Nothing is easier than fault finding.”
“If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.”
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