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The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

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
Single
Concentration
Support
Bound
Family
Bounds
Cannot
Master
Work
Seven
Never
Trade
Trades
Masters
Sailor
Wind
Port

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Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.
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Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.
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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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Action will destroy your procrastination.
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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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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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Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.
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Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
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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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God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve.
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