Og Mandino
Og Mandino
Augustine "Og" Mandino IIwas an American author. He wrote the bestselling book The Greatest Salesman in the World. His books have sold over 50 million copies and have been translated into over twenty-five different languages. He was the president of Success Unlimited magazine until 1976 and is an inductee of the National Speakers Association's Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 December 1923
CityFramingham, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.
I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
Already I am smiling in anticipation of the good to come
Always let your reach exceed your grasp.
If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?
Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple
Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead...
A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.
Green grass grows where dry desert ends.
Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.