Top 180 Og Mandino Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Og Mandino

52. “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.”

— Og Mandino

53. “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.”

— Og Mandino

54. “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.”

— Og Mandino

55. “You can’t conquer reality by running away from it.”

— Og Mandino

56. “Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.”

— Og Mandino

57. “I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.”

— Og Mandino

58. “The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.”

— Og Mandino

59. “So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist.”

— Og Mandino

60. “All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath – so what does that make today worth?”

— Og Mandino

61. “You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.”

— Og Mandino

62. “You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.”

— Og Mandino

63. “Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.”

— Og Mandino

64. “Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find “tomorrow” on the calendars of fools.”

— Og Mandino

65. “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.”

— Og Mandino

66. “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.”

— Og Mandino

67. “Each problem has a positive side.”

— Og Mandino

68. “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.”

— Og Mandino

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

— Og Mandino

70. “Only a habit can subdue another habit.”

— Og Mandino

71. “I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”

— Og Mandino

72. “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.”

— Og Mandino

73. “I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.”

— Og Mandino

74. “Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.”

— Og Mandino

75. “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.”

— Og Mandino

76. “A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.”

— Og Mandino

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

— Og Mandino

78. “There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”

— Og Mandino

79. “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.”

— Og Mandino

80. “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.”

— Og Mandino

81. “Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!”

— Og Mandino

82. “Green grass grows where dry desert ends.”

— Og Mandino

83. “The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.”

— Og Mandino

84. “You will move in the direction you are facing.”

— Og Mandino

85. “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.”

— Og Mandino

86. “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.”

— Og Mandino

87. “Cherish each hour of this day for it can NEVER return.”

— Og Mandino

88. “Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.”

— Og Mandino

89. “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.”

— Og Mandino

90. “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.”

— Og Mandino

91. “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.”

— Og Mandino

92. “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.”

— Og Mandino

93. “The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.”

— Og Mandino

94. “I will work when failures seek rest.”

— Og Mandino

95. “Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.”

— Og Mandino

96. “You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.”

— Og Mandino

97. “He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.”

— Og Mandino

98. “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.”

— Og Mandino

99. “Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.”

— Og Mandino

100. “You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.”

— Og Mandino