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Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

Og Mandino

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Og Mandino
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 1996
Died: September 3
Author
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Framingham
Massachusetts
Augustine Og Mandino II
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Personality
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Procrastination
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Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
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I will persist until I succeed!
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist.
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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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Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.
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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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Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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Cultivate the habit of laughter.
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Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you. Never, until the end of time, will there be another such as you. You have shown no knowledge or appreciation of your uniqueness. Yet, you are the rarest thing in the world.
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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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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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Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.
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Wealth, position, fame, and even elusive happiness will be mine, eventually, if I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those who reach the top are the ones who are not content with.
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Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
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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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Only a habit can subdue another habit.
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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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