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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?

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
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Success
Learn
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Prevent
Mind
Gain
Gains
Failure

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I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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You can't conquer reality by running away from it.
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... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.
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I will laugh at the world! Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that I forget how to laugh at myself and my world.And so long as I can Laugh never will I be poor
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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.
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Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.
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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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I will greet this day with love in my heart.
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A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.
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Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be
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Act now, for now is all you have.
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Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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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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Today.....I begin a new life.
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I am not a human being, i am a human becoming.
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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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If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
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