Og Mandino Quotes

Og Mandino Biography
Type: Author
Nationality: American
Born: December 12, 1923
Died: September 3, 1996

Augustine "Og" Mandino II (December 12, 1923 – September 3, 1996) was 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.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino

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

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Og Mandino

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.
Og Mandino

Do all things with love.
Og Mandino

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino

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.
Og Mandino

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

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
Og Mandino

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino

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

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
Og Mandino

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

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

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

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.
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
Og Mandino

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

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.
Og Mandino

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
Og Mandino