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

Og Mandino

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Og Mandino
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 1996
Died: September 3
Author
Writer
Framingham
Massachusetts
Augustine Og Mandino II
Ability
Sharpens
Inspirational
Strengths
Endurance
Defeat
Confidence
Skills
Courage
Struggle
Rebuff

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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.
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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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Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.
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You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
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If I persist long enough I will win.
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Cherish each hour of this day for it can NEVER return.
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Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.
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Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
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Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.
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What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
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Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.
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Only a habit can subdue another habit.
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Act now, for now is all you have.
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The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.
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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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Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
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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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Always strive to make the next hour better than this one.
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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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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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