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Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.

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
First
Morning
Echo
Never
Hours
Echoes
Success
Action
Theme
Happens
Hour
Certain
Entire
Today
Positive
Firsts
Happen

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Today I will be the master of my emotions.
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Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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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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I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
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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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I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepperd. I am lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.
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