Top 180 Og Mandino Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Og Mandino

153. “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

154. “They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.”

— Og Mandino

155. “Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.”

— Og Mandino

156. “Already I am smiling in anticipation of the good to come.”

— Og Mandino

157. “Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.”

— Og Mandino

158. “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.”

— Og Mandino

159. “I will consider each day’s effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak.”

— Og Mandino

160. “Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.”

— Og Mandino

161. “The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.”

— Og Mandino

162. “So long as I have something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for, I shall be happy.”

— Og Mandino

163. “I would rather try to succeed and fail than try to do nothing and succeed.”

— Og Mandino

164. “We are held back by too much caution. We are timid about venturing. We are not bold enough. And so we die before we reach middle age, although we will not be lowered into the ground until we pass three score and ten.”

— Og Mandino

165. “Which two, among a thousand wise men, will define success in the same words; yet failure is always described but one way. Failure is man’s inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.”

— Og Mandino

166. “Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.”

— Og Mandino

167. “AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.”

— Og Mandino

168. “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.”

— Og Mandino

169. “And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?”

— Og Mandino

170. “Sooner or later all mankind will realize that the greatest cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrow and crimes of humanity rests solely in acts of love. Love is the greatest gift from God. It is the divine spark that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, love gives us the power to work miracles with your own life and those we touch.”

— Og Mandino

171. “Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple.”

— Og Mandino

172. “Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.”

— Og Mandino

173. “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.”

— Og Mandino

174. “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.”

— Og Mandino

175. “Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.”

— Og Mandino

176. “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.”

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177. “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.”

— Og Mandino

178. “Why do we continue to breed little minds who can find no recompense for their own failures other than to belittle and mock the talents, even the dress, of others? When will everyone realize that we are all equal in the eyes of God?”

— Og Mandino

179. “I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.”

— Og Mandino

180. “Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.”

— Og Mandino

181. “Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.”

— Og Mandino

182. “To have a happy family... is to enjoy an earlier heaven.”

— Og Mandino

183. “Cultivate the habit of laughter.”

— Og Mandino

184. “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.”

— Og Mandino

185. “When we were given dominion over the world, we were also given dominion over ourselves. God is not our navigator. It was never His intention to chart a course for each of us and thus place us all under His bondage. Instead, He bestowed each of us with intellect and talent and vision to map our own way, to write our own Book of Life in any manner we choose.”

— Og Mandino

186. “Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don’t look back at it too long. Mistakes are life’s way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.”

— Og Mandino

187. “A new book is very much like a child. Sooner or later it must go out into the world and succeed or fail on its own, usually leaving behind one or two loving people filled with concern and guilt and wondering if they had truly done all they could have to prepare their issue for the cruel marketplace of life.”

— Og Mandino

188. “But be careful not to let yourself slip into the situation where your goals concern only your business or making money. Think of your marriage, your children, and your friends as important areas in which to improve your life.”

— Og Mandino

189. “You merely picture in your mind having already accomplished or attained your goal, whatever it may be. Hold it firmly in your thoughts, picture it as already being yours, and amazing things will happen.”

— Og Mandino

190. “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.”

— Og Mandino

191. “Hafid, so far as material wealth is concerned, there is only one difference between myself and the lowliest beggar outside Herod’s palace. The beggar thinks only of his next meal and I think only of the meal that will be my last. 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

192. “I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I speak? I will laud mine enemies and they will become friends; I will encourage my friends and they will become brothers. 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.”

— Og Mandino

193. “No longer will I judge a man on one meeting; no longer will I fail to call again tomorrow on he who meets me with hate today.”

— Og Mandino

194. “My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear and now I recognize this secret mined from the depths of all courageous hearts. Now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror to an ant of equanimity. I will act now.”

— Og Mandino

195. “My actions are ruled by appetite, passion, prejudice, greed, love, fear, environment, habit, and the worst of these tyrants is habit. Therefore, if I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits. My bad habits must be destroyed and new furrows prepared for good seed.”

— Og Mandino