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Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

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Og Mandino
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 1996
Died: September 3
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Framingham
Massachusetts
Augustine Og Mandino II
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Strengths
Endurance
Defeat
Confidence
Skills
Courage
Struggle
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Never settle for the crumbs of life.
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My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
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Cherish each hour of this day for it can NEVER return.
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.
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Always let your reach exceed your grasp.
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Act now, for now is all you have.
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And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?
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All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.
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Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be
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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.
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It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world
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My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror.... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.
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I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
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Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
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