Og Mandino

“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!”

“Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”

“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.”

“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.”

“One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.”

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

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

“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...”

“Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.”

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”

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

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

“You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.”

“My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible.All are of no value unless they are followed by action.”

“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.”

“when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.”

“Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.”

“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 rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable.”

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