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Og Mandino Quotes Individual Liberty
"Do all things with love." "I will persist until I succeed." "Failure is... the highway to success." "I will greet this day with love in my heart." "Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools." "There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late." "A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle." "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished." "Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be." "I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts." "I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted." "Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new." "My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action." "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." "Action, alone, is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, the scroll, my dreams, my plans, my goals, into living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success." "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." "I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy." "Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." "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." "I will not avoid the tasks of today and charge them to tomorrow for I know that tomorrow never comes. Let me act now even though my actions may not bring happiness or success for it is better to act and fail than not to act and flounder. Happiness, in truth, may not be the fruit plucked by my action yet without action all fruit will die on the vine." "I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force. My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay. I will greet this day with love in my heart." Compiled by Thomas George
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