Quotes from Og Mandino
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
— Og Mandino
women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.
— Og Mandino
The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn. Concentration
— Og Mandino
No one else can live your life for you. No one else can succeed for you!
— Og Mandino
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
My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
— Og Mandino
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 use 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
Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
— Og Mandino
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
A good many of our higher-bracket businessmen might have been just as rich, just as powerful, but more respected and infinitely happier, if they had taken the slower and longer road of absolute ethical integrity and moral decency.
— Og Mandino
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.
— Og Mandino
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
— Og Mandino