Top 180 Og Mandino Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Og Mandino

102. “Laugh at yourself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.”

— Og Mandino

103. “Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.”

— Og Mandino

104. “Always strive to make the next hour better than this one.”

— Og Mandino

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

— Og Mandino

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

— Og Mandino

107. “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 remember past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be master of my emotions.”

— Og Mandino

108. “Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.”

— Og Mandino

109. “I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.”

— Og Mandino

110. “True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.”

— Og Mandino

111. “Nothing is easier than fault finding.”

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112. “Failure is a man’s inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.”

— Og Mandino

113. “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.”

— Og Mandino

114. “Always let your reach exceed your grasp.”

— Og Mandino

115. “I’d rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?”

— Og Mandino

116. “I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.”

— Og Mandino

117. “So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.”

— Og Mandino

118. “I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?”

— Og Mandino

119. “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.”

— Og Mandino

120. “Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity.”

— Og Mandino

121. “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.”

— Og Mandino

122. “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.”

— Og Mandino

123. “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.”

— Og Mandino

124. “Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?”

— Og Mandino

125. “I will embrace today’s difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.”

— Og Mandino

126. “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.”

— Og Mandino

127. “I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.”

— Og Mandino

128. “Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.”

— Og Mandino

129. “No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!”

— Og Mandino

130. “A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.”

— Og Mandino

131. “Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.”

— Og Mandino

132. “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.”

— Og Mandino

133. “Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.”

— Og Mandino

134. “If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life.”

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135. “Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.”

— Og Mandino

136. “True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.”

— Og Mandino

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

— Og Mandino

138. “Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.”

— Og Mandino

139. “I will welcome happiness for 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.”

— Og Mandino

140. “No one else can live your life for you. No one else can succeed for you!”

— Og Mandino

141. “A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.”

— Og Mandino

142. “Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.”

— Og Mandino

143. “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.”

— Og Mandino

144. “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.”

— Og Mandino

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

— Og Mandino

146. “Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.”

— Og Mandino

147. “Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

— Og Mandino

148. “About 90 percent of the things in our lives are right, and about 10 percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 90 percent that are right, and ignore the 10 percent that are wrong. If we want to be worried and bitter and have stomach ulcers, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 10 percent that are wrong and ignore the 90 percent that are glorious.”

— Og Mandino

149. “If I become overconfident I will recall my failures. If I overindulge I will think of past hungers. If I feel complacency I will remember my competition. If I enjoy moments of greatness I will remember moments of shame. If I feel all-powerful I will try to stop the wind. If I attain great wealth I will remember one unfed mouth. If I become overly proud I will remember a moment of weakness. If I feel my skill is unmatched I will look at the stars. Today I will be master of my emotions.”

— Og Mandino

150. “Nature already has supplied me with knowledge and instinct far greater than any beast in the forest and the value of experience is overrated, usually by old men who nod wisely and speak stupidly.”

— Og Mandino